On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:12:32PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> David Laight <da...@l8s.co.uk> writes:
>
> >> 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.
>
> I had a 486DX4 motherboard, now broken, that had PCI. A good point
> about GENERIC not being ok.
>
> > 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.
>
> The Soekris net5501 and net6501 don't have any VGA, and I think the rest
> also lack it. But I see the point about the other SOC stuff.
>
> So just "NO_PCI" is descriptive enough; we should rename the file is
> going to stay.
Interesting thought is how many other drivers might be removable
from GENERIC because you wouldn't use the isa/eisa cards in a
pci system.
David
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