Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2012 15:18:58 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support. |
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On 05/17/2012 09:40 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines > that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB > of memory. A quick search on the internet, and you see that > even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest > in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from > the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series. > > This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core > kernel code and from the x86 architecture. There is no point in > carrying this any further into the future. > > One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up > stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in > the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c).
Enthusiastically
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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