Subject: Re: Device Properties: The Next Generation
To: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/16/2001 09:17:07
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:33:21AM -0500, Lord Isildur wrote:
> how about instead of all this, we totally _drop_ support for PCI buses until
> people start making computers with more logical i/o systems?
> this kind of misery i don't see ever being necessitated by, for example,
> TURBOchannel. it will be disappointing if even more bloat is forced into
> NetBSD by the PC architecture's idiosyncracies.
Uh ... PCI is actually a pretty sane bus. And it's used on a lot more than
just the PC.
...and, really, this doesn't have anything to do with "PCI" per se.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>