> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:08, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am going to revisit this. > > > >> I do believe i386/amd64 RAMDISKs are destined to more or > >> less mainstream hardware and ISA CGA, MDA, EGA, HGA > >> stuff isn't there anymore. > >> > >> So on i386 RAMDISK (like amd64 one), I suggest to remove > >> > >> pcdisplay0 at isa? > >> wsdisplay* at pcdisplay? > > > > This breaks machines that really do exist out there. > > > > 2200 44 88 2332 91c GENERIC/pcdisplay.o > > 135 1064 0 1199 4af GENERIC/pcdisplay_chars.o > > 907 0 0 907 38b GENERIC/pcdisplay_subr.o > > > >> sys/arch/i386/conf/RAMDISK: > >> > >> pckbc0 at isa? # PC keyboard controller > >> pckbd* at pckbc? # PC keyboard > >> wskbd* at pckbd? mux 1 > >> vga0 at isa? > >> vga* at pci? > >> pcdisplay0 at isa? # CGA, MDA, EGA, HGA > >> wsdisplay* at vga? > >> wsdisplay* at pcdisplay? > > > > This breaks 99% of i386 machines, ie. every machine that has either > > a pci vga display or a non-usb keyboard. > > > >> sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK: > >> > >> pckbc0 at isa? # PC keyboard controller > >> pckbd* at pckbc? # PC keyboard > >> wskbd* at pckbd? mux 1 > >> vga0 at isa? > >> vga* at pci? > >> wsdisplay* at vga? > > > > This breaks 99% of amd64 machines, ie. every machine that has either > > a pci vga display or a non-usb keyboard. > > Well, I'm a bit disappointed. > > 1.49 of sys/arch/amd64/conf/RAMDISK does not contain > pcdisplay0. > > > In the last week alone, *two* people mailed in dmesg's that have isa > > vga adapters. You are living in a fantasy if you think that > > restricting hardware support like that helps anyone. > > I told about removing pcdisplay0 at isa?, not vga0 at isa?
Your mail was not explicit. It suggested we remove other things too. > Searching over bugs@ mail archives shows no fresh > dmesgs with pcdisplay0. bugs@ is not the dmesglog. The private dmesglog people send have machines which have pre-vga cards. You think we should simply stop supporting those. Then those people would have to run something else. Or throw them out.
