From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 09:31:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA24486 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA24474 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA04464; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:29:43 -0700 (PDT) To: Joe Greco cc: davidg@Root.COM, dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, SimsS@Infi.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:41:34 CDT." <199607101541.KAA25663@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:29:43 -0700 Message-ID: <4462.837016183@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > However, I will definitely scream if anyone removes sio2/sio3. Disabled by > default, MAYBE. Removed, NO. I have seen far too many people who have > three or four STANDARD SERIAL PORTS and sio2/3 directly map to COM3/4. > There should be NO reason to screw around with this. These lines support > standard PC hardware. If you remove them, remove sio1 too because you > obviously only need one serial port to do an install. I'll compromise with you - we keep ed1, which I'm going to fold over since it seems so many WD/NE have a conflicting view of what a "standard setting" is. sio2/3 have already gone and I can hardly accept the argument that 4 port PCs are any kind of norm. I've seen literally hundreds of different PC configurations and in all but a few very rare cases, it's always the same 2 ser/1 par/1 game combo. Enabling sio3 can also give you a bad headache if you have an ATI chipset, and it was already disabled in GENERIC as it was, so really I've only removed one port. Jordan