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Date:      Fri, 6 Sep 1996 12:53:51 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        se@freefall.freebsd.org (Stefan Esser)
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/pci pcisupport.c
Message-ID:  <199609060323.MAA15217@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199609052134.OAA21522@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Stefan Esser" at Sep 5, 96 02:34:16 pm

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Stefan Esser stands accused of saying:
>   
>   Include only register specifications for those chip sets that apply to
>   a cpu that might boot this a particular kernel (ie. make the Saturn code
>   depend on I486_CPU being defined, the Pentium chip sets on I586_CPU ...)

Please note that the PODP chips mean that it's possible to have a Pentium
on a 486 board; I would be cross for example to discover that the SiS
496/497 code disappeared from my kernel just because I'm running one 8)

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