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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