Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:25:25 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: removing drivers and ISA support? [Was: Char: correct pci_get_device changes] |
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 07:59:56PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: >... > And what about (E)ISA support. When converting to pci probing, should be ISA bus > support preserved (how much is ISA used in present)? -- it makes code ugly and long.
There seem to be still many running 486 machines - and only the last 486 boards also had PCI slots.
While deprecating OSS drivers, I got emails from people still using some of the ISA cards.
And there are even Pentium 4 boards with ISA slots available.
> regards,
cu Adrian
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