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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:48:07 -0600
From:      Dan Thill <thill@umr.edu>
To:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: device eisa...
Message-ID:  <20020110124807.B22301@umr.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020110194243.A29397@tisys.org>; from nils@tisys.org on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 12:42:44PM -0600
References:  <20020110194243.A29397@tisys.org>

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> I've been wondering about the following: Is there actually a need to
> keep the line "device eisa" in the kernel? I realize that my systems
> need "device pci" for the PCI cards and "device isa" for some
> internal things and probably installed ISA cards, but I really
> wonder what eisa is good for. So, does one *always* have to enable
> eisa if one enables isa (which means that eisa can not really ever
> be disabled), or does eisa only refer to special hardware that is
> not generally included in most PCs and can thus be disabled?

That is what the LINT file led me to believe.  I have an older AMD
K6-200mhz machine with both ISA and PCI cards, and it runs perfectly
without it.

-dan





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