Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64

Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-11T20:34:37Z

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:24:43PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> IA64 boxes only have PCI IDE devices, so there's no need to blindly poke
> around in I/O port space. Poking at things that don't exist causes MCAs
> on HP ia64 systems.

Maybe it should instead depend on those systems where it is available.
Anything but X86?