Re: ultrastor.c is a bit-rot

H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-21T20:41:51Z

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> VESA Local Bus. It was (in some sense) the predecessor of AGP. We
> treat it like ISA inside the kernel. On x86, EISA depends on ISA, so
> the dependency, while wrong, does not affect any x86 users who have an
> EISA card.
>

Well, one can say VLB was to ISA (a souped-up ISA bus with some of the
worst limitations removed) what AGP is to PCI...

-hpa