Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:31:58 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: IDE - sensible probing for PCI systems |
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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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