svn commit: r277694 - head/sys/amd64/conf

[Alfred Perlstein]

Never mind, apologies, thought this was i386+amd64.  I'm going to guess anything emulating amd64 has pci NICs in it. :)

On Jan 26, 2015, at 9:21 AM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Don't have a strong opinion on this because I'm not in the know lately, but was wondering:
> 
> 1) if we wanted to keep NE1000/2000 support for FreeBSD in emulators?  Probably not I assume?
> 2) Does Linux nuke these devices?  why/why-not?
> 
> 
> On Jan 25, 2015, at 9:58 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 04:43, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 25 January 2015 at 15:02, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> Author: des
>>>>> Date: Sun Jan 25 12:02:38 2015
>>>>> New Revision: 277694
>>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/277694
>>>>> 
>>>>> Log:
>>>>> Remove ISA NICs.  Anyone still using these on amd64 can build their
>>>>> own kernel.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Modified:
>>>>> head/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
>>>> 
>>>> If so, what about i386? (I'd rather not pc98)
>>>> What about device isa in DEFAULTS?
>>> 
>>> isa is still needed in some scenarios. I just don't remember the full details offhand (something about internal buses iirc... And IPMI for starters...)
>> 
>> "isa” in this context should be read as “mainbus” not as “ISA slots”. You can’t
>> remove it without some significant work, and even then the interface changes
>> to long established interfaces isn’t worth the pain.
>> 
>> Warner
>> 
>> 
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