From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:21:47 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] turn off CONFIG_FD on ia64? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:05:32AM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > > any more? > > CONFIG_GSC_LASI and CONFIG_SUPERIO in drivers/parisc/Kconfig. > Search for "Floppy" in drivers/parisc/lasi.c and superio.c It doesn't compile, has never compiled, and doesn't look likely to compile in the near future. It's a fairly frequent question on the mailing list. We should stop asking the question on PARISC until someone's written the code. > Because of an on-going lawsuit, HP was not able to publish documentation > for LASI floppy controller (or it's bugs). We only have one cheesy > document for the NS87560UBD chip. That's not true. Everything anyone could want to know about the Lasi floppy is in http://ftp.parisc-linux.org/docs/chips/lasi_ers.ps and that document tells you it interfaces to a "Western Digital WD37C65C Floppy Disk Controller chip (FDC)." I don't know where to find documentation on that chip, but wikipedia tells me, "in 1987 they introduced the WD37C65, a single-chip implementation of the PC/AT's floppy disk controller circuitry, and the grandfather of modern super I/O chips" > I don't recall any work was completed to enable floppy under those > chips but someone might want to take another whack at it in the future. Then they can reenable the Kconfig option then. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk