From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 15:11:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA20158 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA20144 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 15:11:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA04548; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 17:11:41 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 17:11:41 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC In-Reply-To: <12325.836972831@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > sio2 > sio3 Some people have modems on sio2 or 3 because the UARTs on sio0 and 1 are crappy unbuffered ones. For these people, eliminating sio2 and 3 may not be a complete showstopper, thanks to the -c boot option, but it is a hassles regardless. We are trying to make installation easier, not harder aren't we? Considering that a modem may be instrumental in installing FreeBSD for some people, I'd hope these could stay in unless there is a *really* good reason to zap them. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================