Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:48:07 -0600 From: Dan Thill <thill@umr.edu> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device eisa... Message-ID: <20020110124807.B22301@umr.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020110194243.A29397@tisys.org>; from nils@tisys.org on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:42:44PM -0600 References: <20020110194243.A29397@tisys.org>
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> I've been wondering about the following: Is there actually a need to > keep the line "device eisa" in the kernel? I realize that my systems > need "device pci" for the PCI cards and "device isa" for some > internal things and probably installed ISA cards, but I really > wonder what eisa is good for. So, does one *always* have to enable > eisa if one enables isa (which means that eisa can not really ever > be disabled), or does eisa only refer to special hardware that is > not generally included in most PCs and can thus be disabled? That is what the LINT file led me to believe. I have an older AMD K6-200mhz machine with both ISA and PCI cards, and it runs perfectly without it. -dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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