From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 11 00:52:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA23339 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA23284 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA09300 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:51:48 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA11927 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:51:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id JAA14338 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:21:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607110721.JAA14338@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 09:21:22 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from John Fieber at "Jul 10, 96 05:11:41 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John Fieber wrote: > 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. Note that they will remain using -c anyway, since the likelihood that their internal modem is configured to the IRQ the GENERIC kernel thinks it were is minimal. (Unlike with sio0 and sio1, which use the default IRQ.) Removing sio2 and sio3, thus *forcing* them to think about their hardware, and boot with -c, was IMHO the best effect of Jordan's changes. Sigh, this is the only change he reverted now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)