Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:00:38 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Efren Bravo <efrenba@dhl.co.cu> Cc: freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: compiling kernel Message-ID: <4314D706.4090504@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <WorldClient-F200508301614.AA14250013@dhl.co.cu> References: <WorldClient-F200508301614.AA14250013@dhl.co.cu>
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Efren Bravo wrote: >Hi, > >Trying to compile the kernel I found this problem: > > My PC has not ISA slot and I want to disable it from >/sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL but on /boot/device.hints I found some devices >pointing to isa. > > Can I remove those devices declarations? Because for example my pc >doesn't have SCSI but what can I do with ata, fdc, ppc, sio, vga, psm and >atkbdc devices? Can I also remove them? > > Thanks a lot... > > > If you think you have a machine that will run without drivers for an ATA disk controller, a Floppy Disk Controller, a Parallel Port Chipset driver, any serial communications (sio), a video console (vga), a mouse, and a keyboard, then by all means go ahead and try it. BUT if I were you I'd do "man ata, man fdc, man ppc," etc. and see what those things do before I remove them from my kernel. ((In other words, leave it all in!!!) Kevin Kinsey
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