On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:20:03AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Alan Barrett <a...@cequrux.com> writes: > > > On Sat, 07 Mar 2015, Martin Husemann wrote: > >> Anything that has no PCI. > > > > Could we rename LEGACY to something more descriptive? The problem > > with the name "LEGACY" is that it leaves people wondering whether or > > not particular hardware is old enough to be classified as "legacy". > > If the test is "Does it have an ISA bus without a PCI bus?" then I'd > > suggest a name like ISA_NO_PCI. > > I agree about ISA_NO_PCI. In addition, "legacy" is a really > problematic word in technical English, because it usually means "how > people do things now, compared to the new thing I am proposing that I > think everyone should do instead".
yes - you don't know how old 'legacy' is. > 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. 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. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk