EISA in GENERIC

[Warner Losh]

On Apr 15, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:50:14PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>> 
>> The time has come to trim EISA from the generic i386 kernel.
>> 
>> Please see http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/patch-queue/eisa for
>> the proposed change. It introduces a MK_EISA too so one can
>> control building the eisa-only modules as well as the eisa attachments
>> in modules.
>> 
>> There are those that say it is time to vote EISA off the island. Perhaps,
>> but that?s a completely different discussion than the one I?m wanting
>> to have now. The normal way that should be done is to remove it in 12
>> after disabling it in 11.
>> 
> 
> No problem with intent of patch.
> 
> Do you need to make any changes for bt(4)?  My first foray into
> EISA used at Buslogic BT-742A.  'man bt' does not show a dependence
> on 'device eisa', but bt(4) certainly supported EISA cards.

This is handled in the config system. When ‘device eisa’ is omitted, the
eisa attachment for bt is omitted. There’s no bt or buslogic module, so
no change is needed to cope there. At this late date, it is doubtful if a
bt/buslogic module would be useful to create…

Thanks for the review...

Warner