Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:19:10 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] Re: RFC: let x86_64 no longer define X86 |
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:12:46AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >I don't know details about the driver, but it's not enabled on x86-64 > >because x86-64 doesn't have ISA set. > > > which I disagree with. CONFIG_ISA should include southbridge devices > behind a PCI<->ISA bridge. There is zero value to a more stricter > "there is a physical ISA bus in this machine" definition.
There is. It gets rid of many tens of drivers that are not and will never be 64bit clean and have a snowball in hell chances to work on x86-64.
In theory you could invent a new ISA_SLOT or ISA_BROKEN config for them, but since ISA does the job quite well for near everybody except for one or two corner cases I don't see any sense in changing it.
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