From owner-cvs-all Sun Mar 19 10:33:18 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BF737B5BC; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:32:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14485; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:32:58 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA08334; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:32:52 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200003191832.LAA08334@harmony.village.org> To: Peter Wemm Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 files.pc98 options options.i386 options.pc98 src/sys/i386/isa isa.c isa_device.h src/sys/pci pci.c pcivar.h Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2000 05:07:13 PST." <200003191307.FAA61668@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200003191307.FAA61668@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:32:52 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200003191307.FAA61668@freefall.freebsd.org> Peter Wemm writes: : Connect the ISA and PCI compatability shims to an option. In this case : it's options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. This is meant to be a : fairly strong incentive to update the older drivers to newbus, but doesn't : (quite) leave anybody hanging with no hardware support. I was talking with : a few folks and I was encouraged to simply break or disable the shims but : that was a bit too drastic for my liking. I agree. I think that we need to come up with a list of old, shim using drivers first. There may be a few surprises on the list. The only one I have in my sights right now is the fe driver. It is the one network card that we dropped support for between 3.x and 4.x. I have the hardware, just not the time. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message