Re: CVS commit: src

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:20:03AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 07 Mar 2015, Martin Husemann wrote:
> >> 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 agree about ISA_NO_PCI.   In addition, "legacy" is a really
> problematic word in technical English, because it usually means "how
> people do things now, compared to the new thing I am proposing that I
> think everyone should do instead".

yes - you don't know how old 'legacy' is.

> I'm also not sure we need a new kernel config.  It seems the systems of
> interest are limited to 486 machines without PCI (and thus EISA
> probably), and that's a pretty narrow window around 1993-1994.  So
> leaving the lines commented out with a comment explaining it in the
> kernel config file is probably entirely adequate for the handful of
> people who still have such hardware.

It is probably almost all 486 systems, and no pentium ones.
They probably need a 'small' kernel anyway.

More interesting might be the embedded 486-like systems
from soekris (etc). Not sure if any of those have graphics
but they will normally run a generic kernel.


	David

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