Subject: Re: default built kernels and com4
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.berkeley.edu>
From: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/13/1994 11:05:33
> > For those of us with mach32 based cards, the com4 support makes the default
> > kernels useless.
>
> why? I don't have a mach32-based card, and am not going to buy one to
> find out why they don't work with kernels w/com4...
>
>
>
> chris
I think other VGA cards also use either the *standard* COM4 interrupt and/or IO
space - like the S3/928 based ones.
Why wouldn't it be reasonable to exclude COM4 for the canned 386 kernels ?
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