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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:34:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64
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To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org

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?