David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> writes: >> I'm also not sure we need a new kernel config. It seems the systems of >> interest are limited to 486 machines without PCI (and thus EISA >> probably), and that's a pretty narrow window around 1993-1994. So >> leaving the lines commented out with a comment explaining it in the >> kernel config file is probably entirely adequate for the handful of >> people who still have such hardware. > > It is probably almost all 486 systems, and no pentium ones. > They probably need a 'small' kernel anyway. I had a 486DX4 motherboard, now broken, that had PCI. A good point about GENERIC not being ok. > More interesting might be the embedded 486-like systems > from soekris (etc). Not sure if any of those have graphics > but they will normally run a generic kernel. The Soekris net5501 and net6501 don't have any VGA, and I think the rest also lack it. But I see the point about the other SOC stuff. So just "NO_PCI" is descriptive enough; we should rename the file is going to stay.
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