From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 16 11:21:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA07890 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA07872 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:21:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA03103; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:21:02 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA15619; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:05:03 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:05:03 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Cc: eivind@dimaga.com (Eivind Eklund) Subject: Re: Numerous minor with 2.1.6 References: <3.0.32.19970113110207.00a51e90@dimaga.com> <12678.853329187@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <12678.853329187@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Jan 15, 1997 03:53:07 -0800 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > BTW: While we're at configuration - do you know if it would hurt to add a > > device lnc1 at isa? port 0x7000 net irq 3 drq 0 vector lncintr > > or something similar to the default kernel? This would allow an install on > > a Compaq ProSignia without kernel changes - a "good thing". (I've been > > Anyone see a problem with this? It's beyond the regular ISA port range. Stupid ISA cards only decode 10 address bits. OTOH, this will yield address 0x0, so you need a stupid motherboard to get hosed by it. It's perhaps better to mention it as a particular ``oddness'' in hardware.txt. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)