Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:26:52 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow SGI IOC4 chipset support
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:05:10AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Christoph> That's stupid.  You should just not be allowed to compile
> Christoph> the driver if it can work anywork.
> 
> I don't know if it's actually possible to use the card in a non-SN2,
> not that I think anyone would want to. But if you prefer, just make
> the equivalent change to the Kconfig file and remove the weak
> reference.

It might be possible to use an IOC4 card in other hardware, but not
with this driver, as it relies on Xbridge/PIC to do byteswapping for
it - a functionality common PCI bridges don't provide and that Linux
doesn't have a generic API for.

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