Subject: Re: GENERIC is absurdly big
To: Samuel Boivie <z@kdu.se>
From: Ben Collver <collver1@comcast.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/18/2003 10:15:09
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:01:26PM +0100, Samuel Boivie wrote:
> I don't know if it's possible to live totally without ISA (assuming usb
> keyboard and so on). I'd like to see such a "generic modern" kernel. ISA
> feels really old. What exactly is ISA on a modern motherboard anyway?
I tried to configure NetBSD 1.6ZF without ISA, however it is required to
attach the math coprocessor, even if you try to attach using ACPI. I did
not try enabling MATH_EMULATE.
Ben
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