svn commit: r192122 - in head/sys: amd64/conf i386/conf

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 14 May 2009 5:53:35 pm John Baldwin wrote:
> Author: jhb
> Date: Thu May 14 21:53:35 2009
> New Revision: 192122
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/192122
> 
> Log:
>   Trim the default set of device hints on i386 and amd64:
>   - Remove vga0 and the disabled uart2/uart3 hints from both platforms.
>   - Remove hints for ISA adv0, bt0, aha0, aic0, ed0, cs0, sn0, ie0, fe0, and
>     le0 from i386.  All these hints were marked 'disabled' and thus already
>     did not work "out of the box".
>   
>   Discussed with:	imp

For 9.0 the plan is to not install GENERIC.hints into /boot/device.hints by 
default (at least for x86 platforms).  i386 and amd64 can now boot without 
any hints (sc0 will be the console in that case) in 7.x and 8.0.

-- 
John Baldwin