From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make PIIX4 ide driver available for MIPS
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:46:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020724164602.E28010@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020724164114.27732D-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 04:43:39PM +0200
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 04:43:39PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > Malta uses this chip. The native driver does provide significant gain in
> > performance. See attached bonnie++ test results.
>
> It's actually weird there are any CPU conditionals there at all. The
> PIIX4 is a generic PCI-ISA bridge after all, so it can be used on any
> system equipped with a PCI bus. DEC Alpha systems used to use Intel's
> bridges for EISA and ISA busses as well.
I bet it's historical reasons and the whole architecture conditional
plain should go away ...
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-24 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-24 0:09 [PATCH] make PIIX4 ide driver available for MIPS Jun Sun
2002-07-24 0:40 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-07-24 1:00 ` Zhang Fuxin
2002-07-24 14:43 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-07-24 14:46 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-07-24 14:56 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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