Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 09:23:53 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred.perlstein@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@freebsd.org>, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r277694 - head/sys/amd64/conf Message-ID: <4C1D4A44-0FB8-4EFA-9C18-2F7542C4C5D2@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F4491618-77BF-46CB-BC9B-46CF5CB1195C@mu.org> References: <201501251202.t0PC2crJ029665@svn.freebsd.org> <CAE-mSOJtB19QA9rop_OnjNRagLdDw=Wi1y3OURtGnjBP=Mgg5A@mail.gmail.com> <6366BFE6-1A9F-433C-99F5-65B9D905AEF5@gmail.com> <ACD3E985-9D43-42B6-B141-CDA5AE61F517@bsdimp.com> <F4491618-77BF-46CB-BC9B-46CF5CB1195C@mu.org>
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Never mind, apologies, thought this was i386+amd64. I'm going to guess anything emulating amd64 has pci NICs in it. :) On Jan 26, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Don't have a strong opinion on this because I'm not in the know lately, but was wondering: > > 1) if we wanted to keep NE1000/2000 support for FreeBSD in emulators? Probably not I assume? > 2) Does Linux nuke these devices? why/why-not? > > > On Jan 25, 2015, at 9:58 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > >> >>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 04:43, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 25 January 2015 at 15:02, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>>> Author: des >>>>> Date: Sun Jan 25 12:02:38 2015 >>>>> New Revision: 277694 >>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/277694 >>>>> >>>>> Log: >>>>> Remove ISA NICs. Anyone still using these on amd64 can build their >>>>> own kernel. >>>>> >>>>> Modified: >>>>> head/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC >>>> >>>> If so, what about i386? (I'd rather not pc98) >>>> What about device isa in DEFAULTS? >>> >>> isa is still needed in some scenarios. I just don't remember the full details offhand (something about internal buses iirc... And IPMI for starters...) >> >> "isa” in this context should be read as “mainbus” not as “ISA slots”. You can’t >> remove it without some significant work, and even then the interface changes >> to long established interfaces isn’t worth the pain. >> >> Warner >> >> >
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