Re: Using sja1000_isa on a 64b system

[Wolfgang Grandegger <wg-5Yr1BZd7O62+XT7JhA+gdA@public.gmane.org>]

On 11/10/2011 09:39 AM, Willy Lambert wrote:
> 2011/11/10 Wolfgang Grandegger <wg-5Yr1BZd7O62+XT7JhA+gdA@public.gmane.org>:
>> Hi Willy,
>>
>> On 11/09/2011 07:03 PM, Willy Lambert wrote:
>>> 2011/9/5 Wolfgang Grandegger <wg-5Yr1BZd7O62+XT7JhA+gdA@public.gmane.org>
>> ...
>>>> Ah, at a closer look, the PC/104-Plus is an extension of the PC/104 from
>>>> factor with an additional connector for PCI. It therefore still supports
>>>> ISA bus communication, which the IXXAT PC-I 04/104 board uses.
>>>>
>>>> Therefore I'm going to prepare a patch removing the "X86_32" restriction
>>>> for CONFIG_ISA above. Sorry for confusion.
>>>>
>>>
>>> May I bump this up ? I read your conversation on other linux ML, but I
>>> don't really know how it ended.
>>
>> Some time ago I posted a patch to the relevant mls removing the
>> restriction mentioned above. But enabling CONFIG_ISA also for x86_64
>> systems is not wished mainly to avoid the expected mess with old
>> legacy ISA driver code. Therefore we should convert the driver to a
>> platform driver. I have attached the *untested* patch below. Could you
>> please give it a try? If it works fine, I will send it finally to the
>> netdev ml.
>>
> 
> For sure I'll do. But it'll take some time because switching from 32b to 64b.

OK, please test first on 32b and let me know. Then I'm quite sure that
it will also work on 64b.

Wolfgang.