From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Feb 24 10:46: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E8837B401; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:46:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E259F43FDD; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:46:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1OIjx3Y089998; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:46:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:44:05 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030224.114405.41526431.imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [RFC] splitting of conf/NOTES From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20030224172818.GA47872@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030224094856.GA21088@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030224.060315.63039059.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030224172818.GA47872@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20030224172818.GA47872@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 06:03:15AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > I'd agree with this. All PCI devices are available for all platforms : > that support PCI, as a general rule (exception to this rule will : > likely be rare). Those exceptions can just be left out of the : > NOTES.pci file. The exceptions are very likely to be MACHINE : > dependent (some of the pc98 built-in chips are this way). : : I agree with this sentiment, and knowing nothing about the PC98 I don't : understand why nyan took a lot of PCI cards (mostly RAID) out of the PC98 : LINT. Do know why? No. The pc98 specific pci devices that I'm aware of tend not to have drivers yet (some do, however). Maybe he didn't have the cards for testing? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message