Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 17:26:25 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES src/sys/alpha/conf NOTES src/ Message-ID: <XFMail.20030224172625.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030224164156.GB47253@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 24-Feb-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:54:05PM +0900, Takahashi Yoshihiro wrote: >> PC98 does not have ISA devices like atkbdc, vga, bt and aha. And >> then, some disk controllers don't work on PC98 even if they are PCI >> devices because it needs to have DISK BIOS for pc98. > > Is that just for booting, or any use? Many of these disk controllers > aren't bootable on Alpha or Sparc64 either -- but they are well supported > once you get the FreeBSD kernel running. All PCI drivers should at least compile on all arch's that support PCI. Thus, they should be in MI NOTES. Just because you can't boot from a card doesn't mean you can't stick it in a PCI slot and mount it as a non-boot filesystem. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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