Subject: GENERIC is absurdly big
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/18/2003 09:01:37
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Folks...

GENERIC has become absurdly big, ~7MB.

I think it's time to split the beast up a bit:

	GENERIC		"Modern" machines, basically systems that would
				have PCI on them.  ISA bus support, and support
				for ISA mainboard devices, but not the long list
				of ISA Ethernet, SCSI, etc.

				Open issue: How to deal with systems that have
				PCI-EISA bridges.

	GENERIC_EISA
				Targeted towards older EISA-based systems.  No
				PCI support.

	GENERIC_ISA
				Targeted towards older ISA-based systems.  No
				PCI support.  No EISA support.

Comments?

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>

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