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Re: CVS commit: src



Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 08:13:17AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Will LEGACY be built by default?
>
> I would vote "no" on that one.
>
>> What's the set of computers that one has to use LEGACY on?
>
> Anything that has no PCI.

That sounds ok, then.

>> Is it just systems that are so old that vga is not via PCI?  Are there
>> thought to be any that have a 486 and could have worked?
>
> I have a working one of those, EISA, 486DX, basically sun-lamp lookalike
> (if you remember that). I plan to add it to my regular test schedule, maybe
> once a month.

I see - that is pretty ancient, and the number of people wanting to run
NetBSD (or anything) on those is probably tiny.

So this all seems fine to me - I just couldn't tell right away and had
wondered for a second if it was going to affect all machines that didn't
have the spiffy drm2-capacble hw.

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