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Date:      Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:10:37 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Do we need this junk?
Message-ID:  <20070405181037.GA60588@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <86zm5nrllc.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <ef10de9a0704050258l4ea754b3n99a1239a81b844a0@mail.gmail.com> <86zm5nrllc.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:34:39PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes:
> > Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT?
>=20
> No.  Modern i386 and amd64 still have an ISA bus, and devices
> connected to that bus, even if they don't have ISA slots.

And even if that was not the case there are still lots of
not-quite-as-modern i386 systems that are perfectly suitable for
running FreeBSD 7.x that *do* have ISA-slots.  (ISA-slots were still
often included on motherboards as late as the Pentium III/AMD Athlon era.)




--=20
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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