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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: ultrastor.c is a bit-rot
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:41:33 -0700
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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