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Re: CVS commit: src



David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> writes:

>> 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.

I had a 486DX4 motherboard, now broken, that had PCI.  A good point
about GENERIC not being ok.

> 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.

The Soekris net5501 and net6501 don't have any VGA, and I think the rest
also lack it.  But I see the point about the other SOC stuff.

So just "NO_PCI" is descriptive enough; we should rename the file is
going to stay.

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