From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 21:45:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA14063 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:45:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@mindbender.headcandy.com [199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14055 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:45:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01174; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607110443.VAA01174@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Joe Greco , davidg@root.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 10 Jul 96 09:41:18 -0700. <4556.837016878@time.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:43:29 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> That's a plausible argument but I remind you that we've been through several >> releases with sio3 enabled. >Actually no, it's been disabled for awhile because it was causing people >big problems in all the release when we DID have it enabled - having >it enabled turned out to be a big mistake! :-) I might point out that NetBSD has had com4 disabled in GENERIC for some time now, for the same reason: it makes it impossible to install on some systems with S3 or ATI MachXX cards, because the probe causes the video card to freak out. Can you seriously give me *any* scenario where you need four com ports to get boot-strapped? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------