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". 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.
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