Subject: Re: Refactoring MI devices in GENERIC and friends
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/08/2007 19:20:47
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Hello,

On Sep 8, 2007, at 17:55, matthew green wrote:

>> i think i like this..  i like pooka's config -f idea.
>>
>> one problem i'm aware of is that many "MI" drivers are not truly
>> MI and don't compile everywhere.  eg, there are several network
>> devices that are not available on sparc64 due to this.  see
>> sparc64/conf/GENERIC for details...
>
>    Why didn't anyone fox that? Another case of right hardware not in 
> right
>    hands?
>
>
> basically.. in some cases, these are 10mbit ethernet cards or
> other poor 100mbit cards that don't compare to onboard at all,
> so the desire to care is very, very low :)

Eh, I guess few would bother with an ne if there's a hme onboard ;)
( although ne at pci works at least on macppc so chances are pretty 
good it would work on sparc(64) as well )

have fun
Michael
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