On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:37:15PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > > 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.
Yes; systems that might need a vga@isa kernel are not limited to the PC manufactured in 1993-1994. x86 SoCs manufactured today may be in this category too ... -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --