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SubjectRe: PATCH & call for help: Marking ISA only drivers
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:33:21PM +0200, Alan Cox wrote:
> > BTW I think CONFIG_ISA would be an useful configuration option for
> > i386 too - at least most modern PCs do not come with ISA slots anymore.
>
> ISA slots != ISA devices
>
> And ISA stuff hanging off things like chipset glue busses is everywhere
>
> > +if [ "$CONFIG_ISA" = "y" ]; then
> > + dep_tristate 'Adaptec AHA152X/2825 support' CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X $CONFIG_SCSI
>
> 2825 is not ISA bus

What then ?

>
> > +# does not use pci dma and seems to be isa/onboard only for old machines
> > +if [ "$CONFIG_X86_64" != "y" ]; then
> > + dep_tristate 'AM53/79C974 PCI SCSI support' CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 $CONFIG_SCSI $CONFIG_PCI
> > +fi
>
> Thats PCI.

But seems to be not 64bit safe and miss pci dma support (note the CONFIG_X86_64).

>
> > +if [ "$CONFIG_ISA" = "y" ]; then
> > + dep_tristate 'Generic NCR5380/53c400 SCSI support' CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 $CONFIG_SCSI
> > + if [ "$CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380" != "n" ]; then
>
> This is used in multiple non ISA situations.

Only on ancient motherboards (I remember having it on some really old EISA
machine) and non PC devices, no ?
I'm hoping the non PC users will add their perspective architecture again.

-Andi
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