Trimming the default /boot/device.hints

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 26 13:57:26 PST 2009


On Monday 26 January 2009 3:38:24 pm Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> There's no way to conditionally include them based on if
> ISA is present?

No, but I dare you to show me a box with ISA expansion slots that you plan to 
run 8.0 on. :)  Or rather, I dare you to show me _enough_ of said boxes to 
where removing these hints from the default set will inconvenience more users 
than the folks having their ethernet come up as le1 in vmware guests. :)

-- 
John Baldwin


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