Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261425AbUKSOM0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:12:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261419AbUKSOLZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:11:25 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:42246 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261417AbUKSOLS (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:11:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:11:16 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andi Kleen Cc: Jeff Garzik , David Woodhouse , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: RFC: let x86_64 no longer define X86 Message-ID: <20041119141116.GB5390@stusta.de> References: <20041119005117.GM4943@stusta.de> <20041119085132.GB26231@wotan.suse.de> <419DC922.1020809@pobox.com> <20041119103418.GB30441@wotan.suse.de> <1100863700.21273.374.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <20041119115539.GC21483@wotan.suse.de> <1100865050.21273.376.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <20041119120549.GD21483@wotan.suse.de> <419DE33E.2000208@pobox.com> <20041119121909.GF21483@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041119121909.GF21483@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1259 Lines: 35 On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:19:10PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:12:46AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Andi Kleen wrote: > > >I don't know details about the driver, but it's not enabled on x86-64 > > >because x86-64 doesn't have ISA set. > > > > > > which I disagree with. CONFIG_ISA should include southbridge devices > > behind a PCI<->ISA bridge. There is zero value to a more stricter > > "there is a physical ISA bus in this machine" definition. > > There is. It gets rid of many tens of drivers that are not and will never > be 64bit clean and have a snowball in hell chances to work on x86-64. >... If this was correctly annotated with (!64BIT || BROKEN), such a broken driver wasn't offered on Alpha, too. > -Andi cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/