From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 17:38:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA01385 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 17:38:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda.com (ip21-max1-fitch.zipnet.net [199.232.245.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA01380 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 17:38:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA01075; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:28:25 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199607110028.UAA01075@hda.com> Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC To: eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 20:28:24 -0400 (EDT) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9607101847.AA10469@pcnet1.pcnet.com> from "Daniel Eischen" at Jul 10, 96 02:47:16 pm Reply-to: hdalog@zipnet.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 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. > > > > One mouse, one modem, ports full. > > > > Now try to add anything. Think of how many serial gizmo's are out there. > > Any home hacker has a mouse and modem, as an absolute freaking minimum. > > Anybody doing anything interesting has more. Like... > > I feel like I don't belong here, but... > > I have to agree with Joe. How many people have internal modems on COM3/4? > How about a PPP install for them? Last week I was working off site with the mouse and a serial line connected to a device I was testing and I had to add a modem. I was happily surprised to find my GENERIC derived kernel had a third serial port configured in it. I know I can build a kernel, but I hadn't built a kernel on that particular machine before and I wasn't at the office. Murphy could have struck. I consider GENERIC to be GENERIC and not MINIMAL - maybe you need a new target. I doubt it costs much - I suggest leaving the third com port in. -- Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267