From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: rename legacy bus to platform bus
Date: 23 Oct 2003 23:51:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bnai56$sak$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F97EF84.2060901@hp.com
Followup to: <3F97EF84.2060901@hp.com>
By author: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks@hp.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Many of us, especially in the embedded computing world, think that
> "legacy bus" is a misnomer. It's not going away. What do root PCI
> buses connect to? At the root of the device tree there is a bus. This
> patch changes the name from legacy bus to platform bus. I'm hoping this
> change can be made even this late in the development cycle. It is a
> pretty small patch but I think that naming is very important.
>
>From a PCI terminology perspective, this is misleading.
The root PCI bus connects to a HOST bus.
The LEGACY bus connects to the subtractive decoding device.
In a PC system, LEGACY busses are basically ISA and LPC.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-24 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-23 15:11 PATCH: rename legacy bus to platform bus Jamey Hicks
2003-10-24 6:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-10-27 22:46 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-10-28 18:12 ` Jamey Hicks
2003-10-28 18:24 ` Patrick Mochel
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