From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262071AbTJXGvv (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:51:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262072AbTJXGvv (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:51:51 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:23566 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262071AbTJXGvu (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:51:50 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: PATCH: rename legacy bus to platform bus Date: 23 Oct 2003 23:51:18 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <3F97EF84.2060901@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <3F97EF84.2060901@hp.com> By author: Jamey Hicks 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 -- at work, in private! If you send me mail in HTML format I will assume it's spam. "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64