EISA in GENERIC

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Tue Apr 15 21:40:49 UTC 2014


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:50:14PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> The time has come to trim EISA from the generic i386 kernel.
> 
> Please see http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/patch-queue/eisa for
> the proposed change. It introduces a MK_EISA too so one can
> control building the eisa-only modules as well as the eisa attachments
> in modules.
> 
> There are those that say it is time to vote EISA off the island. Perhaps,
> but that?s a completely different discussion than the one I?m wanting
> to have now. The normal way that should be done is to remove it in 12
> after disabling it in 11.
> 

No problem with intent of patch.

Do you need to make any changes for bt(4)?  My first foray into
EISA used at Buslogic BT-742A.  'man bt' does not show a dependence
on 'device eisa', but bt(4) certainly supported EISA cards.

-- 
Steve


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