From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, JBottomley@parallels.com,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:00:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120517180001.GA17846@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337272841-25931-6-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:
> Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines
> that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB
> of memory. A quick search on the internet, and you see that
> even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest
> in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from
> the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series.
>
> This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core
> kernel code and from the x86 architecture. There is no point in
> carrying this any further into the future.
>
> One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up
> stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in
> the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c).
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-17 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-17 16:40 [RFC/PATCH 0/5] Delete microchannel [CONFIG_MCA] support Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-17 16:40 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: remove ability to select CONFIG_MCA Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-17 16:40 ` [PATCH 2/5] drivers/net: delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-17 16:51 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-17 21:20 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-17 22:09 ` [RFC PATCH net-next] hp100: delete VG/AnyLAN hp100 Joe Perches
2012-05-17 22:28 ` Francois Romieu
2012-05-17 22:50 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-18 19:28 ` Francois Romieu
2012-05-19 19:28 ` Joel Soete
2012-06-12 12:36 ` Pavel Machek
2012-05-17 22:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] drivers/net: delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA David Miller
2012-05-17 16:40 ` [PATCH 3/5] serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-17 16:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-05-17 16:59 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-17 20:16 ` David Miller
2012-05-17 21:02 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-17 16:40 ` [PATCH 4/5] scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-17 16:40 ` [PATCH 5/5] MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-17 18:00 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-05-17 22:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-17 16:53 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/5] Delete microchannel [CONFIG_MCA] support Linus Torvalds
2012-05-17 17:22 ` Alan Cox
2012-05-17 17:24 ` James Bottomley
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