Subject: Should viaenv and lm devices be enabled in GENERIC? (Was: Re:
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/20/2003 23:17:37
At 05:50 PM 2/20/2003 +0000, Alaric B. Snell wrote:
>You may have to explicitly compile it in. Check out the 'Hardware monitors'
>section of your kernel config file:
>
># LM7[89] and compatible hardware monitors
>lm0     at isa? port 0x290              # other common ports: 0x280, 0x310
>
># VIA VT82C686A hardware monitor
>viapm*  at pci? dev ? function ?
>viaenv* at viapm?
>
>I had no idea which chip my machine had so enabled both and it seems to work
>fine!

I've had all of those in all my kernel configs for a couple years now, and 
never encountered any problem on any machine. Is there a reason they aren't 
enabled in GENERIC?