Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 20:09:50 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r312910 - in head: . etc/etc.pc98 etc/rc.d lib/libsysdecode libexec release release/doc release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/readme release/doc/share/example... Message-ID: <20170201170950.GF79121@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <12386326.7GSpFTXsMZ@ralph.baldwin.cx> References: <201701280222.v0S2MFSR022477@repo.freebsd.org> <3458844.3oruRKbrzH@ralph.baldwin.cx> <20170201103555.GA79121@zxy.spb.ru> <12386326.7GSpFTXsMZ@ralph.baldwin.cx>
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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.
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