Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:29:43 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: davidg@Root.COM, dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, SimsS@Infi.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC Message-ID: <4462.837016183@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jul 1996 10:41:34 CDT." <199607101541.KAA25663@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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> However, I will definitely scream if anyone removes sio2/sio3. Disabled by > default, MAYBE. Removed, NO. I have seen far too many people who have > three or four STANDARD SERIAL PORTS and sio2/3 directly map to COM3/4. > There should be NO reason to screw around with this. These lines support > standard PC hardware. If you remove them, remove sio1 too because you > obviously only need one serial port to do an install. I'll compromise with you - we keep ed1, which I'm going to fold over since it seems so many WD/NE have a conflicting view of what a "standard setting" is. sio2/3 have already gone and I can hardly accept the argument that 4 port PCs are any kind of norm. I've seen literally hundreds of different PC configurations and in all but a few very rare cases, it's always the same 2 ser/1 par/1 game combo. Enabling sio3 can also give you a bad headache if you have an ATI chipset, and it was already disabled in GENERIC as it was, so really I've only removed one port. Jordan
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