Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:43:29 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, davidg@root.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <199607110443.VAA01174@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 10 Jul 96 09:41:18 -0700. <4556.837016878@time.cdrom.com>
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>> That's a plausible argument but I remind you that we've been through several
>> releases with sio3 enabled.
>Actually no, it's been disabled for awhile because it was causing people
>big problems in all the release when we DID have it enabled - having
>it enabled turned out to be a big mistake! :-)
I might point out that NetBSD has had com4 disabled in GENERIC for
some time now, for the same reason: it makes it impossible to install
on some systems with S3 or ATI MachXX cards, because the probe causes
the video card to freak out.
Can you seriously give me *any* scenario where you need four com ports
to get boot-strapped?
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