On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 01:14:42AM +0000, Dale Amon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:00:30PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I am not aware of any of the discover maintainers opposing ISA > > support, but know that several share my view on the subject. I > > believe it is a waste of time trying to get discover to support ISA > > devices, but welcome anyone that want to give it a try. :) > Virtualy every machine I have here (other the he laptop and > NeXT's) uses ISA. My primary workstation uses an ISA > SCSI card. My firewall and firewall test machines are all ISA. > ISA is going to be around for a very long time to come > yet. Which doesn't really speak to whether it's feasible to use discover to try to auto-detect ISA devices. Autoconfiguration of ISA devices has always been a complicated undertaking, and since ISA represents a diminishingly small fraction of deployed peripherals, it seems unlikely that anyone will invest the time needed to support this correctly. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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