Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?

Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-01-04T19:53:02Z

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> My logic would then be: if the box has PCI, and DMI shows no ISA slots,
> and the motherboard is not on the exception list, then suppress ISA
> questions.

What about CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, CONFIG_SERIAL and CONFIG_PARPORT_PC? ISA
devices of this kind are still often present in systems even if no ISA
slots exist. Actually CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is purely ISA and it uses ISA DMA
(so it requires kernel/dma.c, which is ISA-only).

An example of such a system stands next to me now -- no ISA slots but all
of the above devices.

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