Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967773Ab2EQWTO (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 18:19:14 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:37917 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967636Ab2EQWTM (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 18:19:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4FB57952.2090802@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 15:18:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Gortmaker CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, JBottomley@parallels.com, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support. References: <1337272841-25931-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1337272841-25931-6-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <1337272841-25931-6-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1176 Lines: 32 On 05/17/2012 09:40 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines > that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB > of memory. A quick search on the internet, and you see that > even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest > in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from > the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series. > > This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core > kernel code and from the x86 architecture. There is no point in > carrying this any further into the future. > > One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up > stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in > the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c). Enthusiastically Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/