From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 18:26:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 460E816A407 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:26:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0214113C4BB for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:26:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-10-135.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.10.135]:57657 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HZWPw-0005v9-6q for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:10:40 +0200 Received: (qmail 95799 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2007 20:10:37 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 5 Apr 2007 20:10:37 +0200 Received: (qmail 60604 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Apr 2007 20:10:37 +0200 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:10:37 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Message-ID: <20070405181037.GA60588@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , Nikolas Britton , FreeBSD Current References: <86zm5nrllc.fsf@dwp.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <86zm5nrllc.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HZWPw-0005v9-6q. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HZWPw-0005v9-6q 1527bad99377b9bab5831a11bea03f36 Cc: FreeBSD Current , Nikolas Britton Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:26:53 -0000 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:34:39PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > "Nikolas Britton" 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 Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se