From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>,
mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:31:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160222193150.GA14925@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1602221939050.2477@nanos>
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 07:39:36PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
>
> > On 01/27/2016 05:07 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> > >> Many motherboards utilize a LPC to ISA bridge in order to decode
> > >> ISA-style port-mapped I/O addresses. This is particularly true for
> > >> embedded motherboards supporting the PC/104 bus (a bus specification
> > >> derived from ISA).
> > >>
> > >> These motherboards are now commonly running 64-bit x86 processors. The
> > >> X86_32 dependency should be removed from the ISA bus configuration
> > >> option in order to support these newer motherboards.
> > >>
> > >> A new config option, CONFIG_ISA_BUS, is introduced to allow for the
> > >> compilation of the ISA bus driver independent of the CONFIG_ISA option.
> > >> Devices which communicate via ISA-compatible buses can now be supported
> > >> independent of the dependencies of the CONFIG_ISA option.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> >
> > What more can I do to help get this patch pulled in for the merge
> > window?
>
> If Greg doesn't pick it up, I'll pull it into x86 later this week
It's not in my queue so I don't even have it here to pick up :(
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-22 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-22 16:28 [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency William Breathitt Gray
2016-01-27 10:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-22 4:35 ` William Breathitt Gray
2016-02-22 18:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-22 19:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
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