Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:34:20 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: ll_rw_blk.c |
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On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 03:56:28PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> It's to cover the case where you are loading the kernel from a floppy disk, > and said kernel does not have the floppy driver configured in. The outb_p > turns the floppy drives off. > > > CONFIG_APUS can only be defined if CONFIG_PPC has been defined, so that's > > redundant. I _assume_ this is supposed to ACK something that the floppy > > drive would have ACKed if it were configured in? In any case, this looks > > really bogus to me, and I think it would probably be better off replaced with > > I'd like it see it replaced by a floppy_off() or similar, which the architecture > can define for itself. Who says that the floppy that you're using to boot is > controled via port 0x3f2 in all cases?
All my non-Intel boxes turn off the floppy drive after booting even without this line, so I guess this is more to workaround for a PC-specific BIOS problem. So why not moving this to arch/i386/kernel/setup.c?
Ralf
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