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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 16:59:15 -0700 (PWT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, dfr@nlsystems.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905121658470.24567-100000@feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905122356.RAA02805@mt.sri.com>

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> > NetBSD people have not the same stated aim of completely eliminating
> > config, so for them it made more sense to migrate to config.new.
> 
> I think it's also safe to say that because of NetBSD's interest in
> supporting 'older' hardware, it would be suicide to use a truly dynamic
> scheme since much of the old hardware doesn't have the necessary
> capabilities to do dynamic configuration.

Yeah, like a sparcstation-1. It really can't do dynamic reconfiguration at
all.






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