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On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 08:59:40AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:

> > > Fair enough.  I haven't fully put away my 12 axe and am toying with
> > > dropping any ISA-only storage and NIC drivers (and perhaps pccard-only
> > > as well in that case).  Hardware that wants to use ISA/pccard for
> > > storage is probably happier running 4.x anyway.  One question is if we
> > > should drop ISA attachments in that case for drivers that support PCI
> > > and ISA.  However, there's a fair list of ISA-only adapters that would
> > > be a good place to start anyway.  One concern is to not drop any drivers
> > 
> > ps/2 keyboard, mouse, touchpads, lm sensors, etc?...
> 
> Those aren't storage or NICs.  There are many "legacy" device still present
> in modern systems that we obviously have to support.  However, if you have
> an ISA Adapter SCSI HBA in an ISA slot, the machine running that is probably
> happier running 4.x than 12.0.

Also, I am think current ports don't build on 4.x.
I am got complains about using ports on 8.x.