On Oct 14,  8:37am, der Mouse wrote:
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} >>> As I showed above, the only reasonable and reliable way to handle
} >>> cards is by the physical slot that it is in.
} 
} But many busses don't permit detection of physical slot.  Or are you
} proposing a redesign that makes the system unusable on such machines?

     The above quote is mine.  It's taken out of context.  I was
talking about hardware design (specifically the IBM PC vs. the Apple
][), not what NetBSD should be doing.

} You'd desupport a lot of our present machines by such a move.  (VME and
} Qbus/UNIbus come to mind immediately; based on my minimal understanding
} of it, I think ISA is in the same boat.)

     Yep.

}-- End of excerpt from der Mouse