Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:49:30 -0500 From: Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? Message-ID: <20070405194930.GC72219@nowhere> 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: > 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. > > 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? Don't forget about PCCard. There are still quite a few 16-bit PCCard devices floating around, especially modems. PCCard is basically ISA + some PnP magic. There are standards looming that may eventually replace it, but for now even most brand new laptops have it. ep(4) is an (E)ISA only driver, but I keep a 3Com 3CXFE574BT XJack NIC on my shelf because it _ALWAYS WORKS_. It's not fast, but when everything else is broken and you need a network connection, it certainly is handy. Craig
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