Re: [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9

Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21T23:51:28Z

On 22 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > Actually its to cover the case where you have a floppy drive, and you've
> > > booted the kernel from a floppy disk, and the kernel doesn't have the
> > > floppy driver built in. It turns the floppy drive off, cause there's
> > > nothing else to do that.
> >
> > this should then be done by the floppy boot code?
>
> Most definitely. On legacy free boxes there may not even be a floppy
> controller present, and on non x86 your guess is as good as mine at
> where the fdc lives.

non-x86 was covered via an #ifdef, but legacy-free is not covered.

Ingo