Re: CVS commit: src

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:37:15PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > 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.

Yes; systems that might need a vga@isa kernel are not limited to the
PC manufactured in 1993-1994. x86 SoCs manufactured today
may be in this category too ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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