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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ultrastor.c is a bit-rot
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:41:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E41D7D.9050409@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080317152344.GE26285@parisc-linux.org>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-21 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-17 14:59 ultrastor.c is a bit-rot Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-17 15:23 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-17 16:00   ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-17 16:03     ` James Bottomley
2008-03-17 17:01       ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-17 17:25         ` James Bottomley
2008-03-17 15:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-21 20:41   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-03-23  9:54     ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-03-23 16:24       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-23 17:16         ` Al Viro
2008-03-23 17:18           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-17 16:07 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-18 22:07 ` Benny Amorsen

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