Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:05:56 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r192122 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf Message-ID: <200905151705.57071.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200905142153.n4ELrZPE003481@svn.freebsd.org> References: <200905142153.n4ELrZPE003481@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Thursday 14 May 2009 5:53:35 pm John Baldwin wrote: > Author: jhb > Date: Thu May 14 21:53:35 2009 > New Revision: 192122 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/192122 > > Log: > Trim the default set of device hints on i386 and amd64: > - Remove vga0 and the disabled uart2/uart3 hints from both platforms. > - Remove hints for ISA adv0, bt0, aha0, aic0, ed0, cs0, sn0, ie0, fe0, and > le0 from i386. All these hints were marked 'disabled' and thus already > did not work "out of the box". > > Discussed with: imp For 9.0 the plan is to not install GENERIC.hints into /boot/device.hints by default (at least for x86 platforms). i386 and amd64 can now boot without any hints (sc0 will be the console in that case) in 7.x and 8.0. -- John Baldwin
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