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Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:20:15 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199607101718.MAA25879@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jul 10, 96 12:18:26 pm
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As Joe Greco wrote...

> > Actually, I have to admit that we have - I brought over bruce's
> > disabled keyword changes this morning and used it to disable the psm0
> > driver.  However, when I looked at disabling sio3 it was far more
> > appealing to me to simply remove it since I can't see how anyone would
> > need more than two serial ports for an installation.
> 
> Jordan,
> 
> You're missing it.

[del]

> 
> If you have the support for "disabled" keywords...  PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,
> I BEG YOU, DO IT THAT WAY.  You fix the "sio3" problem yet retain the

This is OK under the assumption that the sio ports that are disabled
_really_ don't touch any hardware. I haven't checked -current sio.c
but in 2.1R sio messed up ATI cards even with sio3 not in the kernel.

What people frightens even more than building kernels is a black/screwed
up screen on installation... :-)

Wilko
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