Date: 06 Jan 1999 11:04:04 -0500 From: "Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/conf/PCCARD Message-ID: <yzsu2y45qx7.fsf@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:06:31 -0700 References: <yzsr9t98eip.fsf@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> <199901060706.AAA31404@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes: > In message <yzsr9t98eip.fsf@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu> "Robert > V. Baron" writes: > : I've been wondering, of late, how well/if laptops are supported in > : -current. It seems that the configuration, PCCARD, has recently > : (since mid December) has gone away. Is this the answer? > > Laptops are well supported in -current. In the cleaning frenzy that > overtook the tree, PCCARD was removed because it was claimed to be out > of date. Nothing has taken its place, sadly, but GENERIC with a few > lines from LINT (the ones talking about card and pcic) will work > great. > > I'm running approx Jan 1 on my Libretto 50CT. > > Warner I'm not arguing whether laptops work. I have a TP 560 and have been using it. But the packaging of laptop support with the -current (and -stable) is lacking and removing PCCARD seems to be going in the wrong direction. (Example: to install on a laptop you use GENERIC and the zp/ze drivers; then do some manual magic including insalling a new kernel to switch over to a pccardd based scheme.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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