From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 6 08:04:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00929 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 08:04:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu (SICILY.ODYSSEY.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.185.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA00924 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 08:04:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rvb+@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu) To: Warner Losh Cc: "Robert V. Baron" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/conf/PCCARD References: <199901060706.AAA31404@harmony.village.org> From: "Robert V. Baron" Date: 06 Jan 1999 11:04:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:06:31 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.46/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh writes: > In message "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