Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 11:33:58 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: EISA cards. Message-ID: <199707161733.LAA09133@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:03:43 PDT." <14370.869072623@time.cdrom.com>
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Hi, > > FreeBSD has a tradition for not being "snobbish" in the area of dictating > > ... > While this is all true, I think that SMP falls also pretty squarely > into the new feature category and, as such, could easily get away with > saying that old feature or system xxx is incompatible with new feature > yyy and yyy simply isn't going to support it. > > Now if you were talking about taking out all EISA support in > the uniprocessor version, well, that'd be something different. ;) which I'm not. For awhile I was ready to chuck support for all those ugly machines that claim to be routing the timer via the APIC, but that dont! Unfortunately there are far too many of them to consider this. And we can lay the blame clearly on Intel's doorstep. If they would have thought to the future and used the policy you state above we wouldn't be saddled with these brain-dead hardware configurations in the first place! (more rant...) -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD
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