From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
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: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:54:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E628DF.6070301@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E41D7D.9050409@zytor.com>
On Fri, Mar 21 2008 at 22:41 +0200, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> 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
Hmm interesting, so someone took the VGA thing and made a storage device
for it. Did that ever happen with AGP? Any AGP scsi cards. I guess I can
Google for it.
Boaz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-23 9:55 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
2008-03-23 9:54 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
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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