Subject: Re: ISA bus configuration
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 04/09/2005 21:46:02
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 02:41:32PM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> What I think would be genuine forward progress would be to use ACPI to
> attach the remaining legacy devices and punt the ISA infrastructure
> entirely.

I totally agree. One problem currently is, that using ACPI will overflow
the install floppy. So I've postponed switching to ACPI only until the
install media situation can be fixed (switched to CD only, with a different
El Torito booting method).

- Frank