From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 19 18:16:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A52152A8 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:16:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA15537; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 19:16:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA05829; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 19:16:36 -0700 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 19:16:36 -0700 Message-Id: <199912200216.TAA05829@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Warner Losh Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCCARD vs GENERIC In-Reply-To: <199912192215.PAA07646@harmony.village.org> References: <199912192215.PAA07646@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > PCCARD used to exist separate from GENERIC due to the zp and ze > drivers not being compatible with pccard's pcic driver. These drivers > were removed from the system not too long ago by phk. The reason I added PCCARD to the system was because in the old code, I didn't trust the PCCARD functionality to not negatively effect the normal code. Rather than potentially destabilize the desktop systems, I kept the PCCARD kernel seperate. The other reason is for the installation, but that's now a non-issue I believe in -current, because one can use the standard install for both desktop/laptop systems. So, my only comment is that if you believe that the code is stable enough to not negatively effect desktop systems, and not too much bloat, then have at it. Note, enabling PCCARD functionality w/out APM will be a losing situation for many laptops, and adding APM functionality for desktops may be a losing situation. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message