From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: removing drivers and ISA support? [Was: Char: correct pci_get_device changes]
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:25:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061026222525.GP27968@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4540F79C.7070705@gmail.com>
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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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-26 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-26 17:59 removing drivers and ISA support? [Was: Char: correct pci_get_device changes] Jiri Slaby
2006-10-26 22:07 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-27 13:50 ` John Stoffel
2006-10-26 22:25 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-10-26 22:31 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-10-26 23:36 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-10-26 23:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-04 21:23 ` Jiri Slaby
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