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Date:      Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:31:42 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Neel Natu <neel@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r275952 - head/sys/amd64/vmm/io
Message-ID:  <20141220163142.GA15049@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <201412200457.sBK4vkLQ084515@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 04:57:46AM +0000, Neel Natu wrote:
>   Various 8259 device model improvements:

While I am glad to see this particular commit ...

... I have to say that I am depressed seeing the string "8259" in 2014.

That chip was a hack in its time, which was a long time ago.  (For those
kids in the audience: IIRC it was designed to be part of a chipset
supporting the Intel 8085 CPU).

The fact that designs still carry around little shards of this is ...
miserable.

Sigh.

mcl
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