From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jul 22 1:20:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C16937B69C for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 01:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13FuVw-0007Ke-00; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 08:20:04 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA27099; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:10:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:10:23 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthew Jacob Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: so, what does BOOTMFS install kernel need a parallel port for? Message-ID: <20000722101023.A26964@freebie.demon.nl> Reply-To: wilko@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 04:18:45PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 04:18:45PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > If we're concerned with size on floppies, what is > > ppc0: at port 0x3bc-0x3c3 irq 7 on isa0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode > plip0: cannot reserve interrupt, failed. > ppc0: interrupting at ISA irq 7 > > this doing in the install kernel? I guess the idea is to allow PLIP installs. But I agree we could loose it in favor of something more useful. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message