Re: HEADS UP: Dropping ISA & EISA support

[David Rhodus <sdrhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm curious how the vga driver will be affected.
I have a few old systems still in production that run console only that 
use ISA video cards.

Do you have a patch set to test the ISA removal ?

-DR

Sascha Wildner wrote:
> Just to clarify:
>
> After 2.2 has been branched (end of January), we'll start dropping 
> support for _all_ ISA and EISA cards, not just the NICs.
>
> We can't drop ISA support completely of course because of things like 
> PS/2 (atkbdc(4), ...), vga(4) and so on but support for everything 
> involving a physical ISA card being plugged into a physical ISA slot 
> is planned to be nuked.
>
> A list of ISA drivers is on the isa(4) manual page, but I guess you 
> know if there are ISA slots in your box and whether you use them.
>
> Please speak up if you think that this is not a good idea. :)
>
> Sascha