Re: PATCH: IDE - sensible probing for PCI systems

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

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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