Re: [uClinux-dev] [PATCH] m68k: reorganize Kconfig options to improve mmu/non-mmu selections

[Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>]

Hi Brad,

On 12/08/11 14:30, Brad Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:43:23PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>> Do you really need EISA, MCA and PCMIA? They have no promt thus cannot be selected by the user.
>>
>> Yes, your right, they don't look like than can be selected at all.
>> None of the default configs seem to reference them either.
>> Geert: do you know why these options might still be around?
>>
>
> It still hasn't been cleaned up enough to go in, but somebody posted
> a trex driver which would need PCMCIA. It was a driver for the card
> slots in the Macintosh PowerBook 190.
>
> In theory some other m68k systems have PCMCIA slots that could be
> supported as well. I'm sure they're almost as broken and non-standards
> compliant as what Apple did.

Even if we remove these options now they can always be re-introduced
if and when a driver that needs them is ready for mainline.

Regards
Greg


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