re: CVS commit: src

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Alan Barrett writes:
> On Sat, 07 Mar 2015, Martin Husemann wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 08:13:17AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >> What's the set of computers that one has to use LEGACY on?
> >
> > Anything that has no PCI.
> 
> Could we rename LEGACY to something more descriptive?  The problem 
> with the name "LEGACY" is that it leaves people wondering whether 
> or not particular hardware is old enough to be classified as 
> "legacy".  If the test is "Does it have an ISA bus without a PCI 
> bus?" then I'd suggest a name like ISA_NO_PCI.

i'm not attached to any particular name.  but at this point i'm
sick of the problem it solves, so if the name bothers you, please
change it.  i'm not an x86 platform person, and i wasted weeks
trying to solve this properly.

> This is another case where prior discussion would have been a good 
> idea.

... which was done.


.mrg.