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SubjectRe: PATCH: IDE - sensible probing for PCI systems
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
>>>Well, keyboard and mouse are USB these days, serial and parallel are PCI,
>>>floppies are not used anymore and the ISA DMA controller would only be
>>
>>Oh, how I wish this were true!
>>
>>The pre-production machines I get (i.e. not even on the market yet) still have
>>floppy, serial, and PS/2 kbd/mouse.
>
>
> You must be getting them from wrong vendors. ;-) How about switching to
> a reasonable platform that doesn't imply DOS compatibility?

What's reasonable about a system without serial connectivity? Damn hard
to debug with a serial console without one. Yes you can get around it,
but it's one more issue to address. PS/2? I have enough KVM hardware in
place to make that non-sales point, and I bet that there are lots of
people with some fancy mouse, or keyboard, or game thingie, that it's
cheaper to keep the features than drop them. I don't know if the ATX
standard requires them, but low cost features are hard to drop.

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last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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