Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:03:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:03:22 -0500 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:29714 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:03:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3C7946D9.1020908@evision-ventures.com> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:02:33 +0100 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] IDE clean 12 3rd attempt In-Reply-To: <200202241954.g1OJsPA32151@fenrus.demon.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote: > In article <3C79435E.8030208@evision-ventures.com> you wrote: > > >>linux ide driver anyway. And I think that 2.4.x and above don't run on >>i386's anymore anyway. >> > > it was about the i386 architecture, not just 80386 cpus. And yes 2.4 still > runs on those; you'be surprised how many > embedded systems run 80386 equivalents... Interresting. But do they still incorporate ST509 and other archaic controllers? Or do they have broken BIOS-es which don't setup the geometry information properly? I don't think so. Well now I'm quite convinced. We can point those people to the legacy single host driver anyway... And then the tradeoff goes just in favour of supporting more and more common new hardware - it will just make more people happy than it will make people loose :-). - 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/