Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:18:33 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <20070405181833.GA60674@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0704051056o55ea757di3d85b79f8503619b@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <86zm5nrllc.fsf@dwp.des.no> <ef10de9a0704051056o55ea757di3d85b79f8503619b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:56:35PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 4/5/07, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > >"Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes: > >> Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT? > > > >No. Modern i386 and amd64 still have an ISA bus, and devices > >connected to that bus, even if they don't have ISA slots. > > >=20 > What you speak of is the LPC bus. LPC is intended to be a > motherboard-only bus. No connector is defined, and no LPC peripheral > daughterboards are available. But from the software's viewpoint it looks like an ISA-bus. >=20 > So I come back to the question of why we have external devices from > 1987 still floating around in the kernel and more importantly why > these devices are enabled by default in the GENERIC kern conf? Beacuse many of them are still perfectly usable presumably. (And because there are a number of persons who do run FreeBSD on older systems that might have those devices.) --=20 <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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