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Date:      Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:08:20 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r197969 - head/sys/conf
Message-ID:  <20091013200820.GA84594@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <D3B2832A-0D7A-4B61-ACA1-DFC8EBC69182@mac.com>
References:  <200910112042.n9BKgRCQ029985@svn.freebsd.org> <20091012.232251.420437707.imp@bsdimp.com> <D3B2832A-0D7A-4B61-ACA1-DFC8EBC69182@mac.com>

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:59:42AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:22 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> > In message: <200910112042.n9BKgRCQ029985@svn.freebsd.org>
> >            Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > : Author: marcel
> > : Date: Sun Oct 11 20:42:26 2009
> > : New Revision: 197969
> > : URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197969
> > :
> > : Log:
> > :   Scan for option ROMs on i386 and amd64 only.
> >
> > Why?  They should be scanned for on any system with a real isa bus...
> 
> Other than i386, those are?

Well, I know that there were machines using Alpha and PowerPC processors
(and MIPS, and PA-RISC, and ...) that provided real (E)ISA-slots. 
Those might not count though since recent releases of FreeBSD have dropped support
for Alpha, and the relevant PowerPC (etc.) machines have probably never been
supported by FreeBSD.

For machines that are currently supported by FreeBSD and which provides
ISA-slots it is probably only the i386 architecture that qualifies. (There
might also be some motherboard out there that has ISA-slots and supports
amd64-capable CPUs but one will have to look fairly hard to find one.)




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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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