From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 09:44:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA25409 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25403 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:44:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23663; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:40:16 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:40:16 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199607101640.KAA23663@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Joe Greco Cc: davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC In-Reply-To: <199607101615.LAA25737@brasil.moneng.mei.com> References: <199607101554.IAA04210@root.com> <199607101615.LAA25737@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > We have to remove sio3 because we can't disable it by default and it > > conflicts with the most common SVGA cards. > > That's a plausible argument but I remind you that we've been through several > releases with sio3 enabled. Yes, but 'newer' SVGA cards *now* blow up when sio3 is enabled. In the past this wasn't a big deal, but even in 2.1R we had quite a few folks who got wiped out by sio3 (read Usenet), and this is only going to get worse with the faster S3/ATI/Mach cards becoming more commonplace. [ Deleted opinion on changing stuff this close to release which I agree with ] Nate