Re: HEADS UP: Dropping ISA EISA support

2009-01-09 Thread Eugene
Hello. Sascha Wildner wrote: David Rhodus schrieb: I'm curious how the vga driver will be affected. I have a few old systems still in production that run console only that use ISA video cards. The vga driver is a special case and would remain unchanged for now (it initializes very very

HEADS UP: Dropping ISA EISA support

2009-01-06 Thread Sascha Wildner
Just to clarify: After 2.2 has been branched (end of January), we'll start dropping support for _all_ ISA and EISA cards, not just the NICs. We can't drop ISA support completely of course because of things like PS/2 (atkbdc(4), ...), vga(4) and so on but support for everything involving a

Re: HEADS UP: Dropping ISA EISA support

2009-01-06 Thread David Rhodus
I'm curious how the vga driver will be affected. I have a few old systems still in production that run console only that use ISA video cards. Do you have a patch set to test the ISA removal ? -DR Sascha Wildner wrote: Just to clarify: After 2.2 has been branched (end of January), we'll