[PATCH] Convert checks for PC98 support from platform #ifdefs to configure flag

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Fri Dec 18 18:55:25 PST 2009


Daniel Stone wrote:
> Yeah.  It's almost kind of a standard PC, but has bizzare weird quirks
> for everything, hence the #ifdef city.  There aren't _that_ many of them
> still around, but definitely still a few -- I remember merging patches
> to fix PC98 support from Bugzilla at some point.  Hopefully we can can
> support for it in a couple of years or so, but at the moment I guess
> just not actively breaking it should be fine.

Well, at least those like Tiago who know they'll never need it can now
pass --disable-pc98 to save a few instructions and a BIOS read.

At what point the upstream default should become disabled for all and
require those who need it in their distros to enable is another question.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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