Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:33:30 +0200 (CEST) | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: New kernel/resource.c |
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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Tom Leete wrote: > > > > To me, the problem with calling it "pci" is that it's likely to be taken > > literally. People writing for other bus archs will not know or forget that > > it's for them too. People writing for pci will add pci specializations to > > it. > > But other bus architectures are not even supposed to use it! > > It's really only meant to be used by PC IO subsystems (ie PCI, ISA etc). > So it really =is= meant to be specific to one bus type (admittedly that > bus type is a superset of PCI itself, but it's NOT supposed to ever be > used as a "every bus" kind of resource).
My question is, is it intended to be used by the MCA-bus as well? It has nothing (!) to do with the PCI-bus or the ISA-bus, and it's in quite a few PC's (admittedly none newer than a Pentium, but anyway)
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