Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:27:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Normal Flopply should depend of ISA? |
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello folks, > > I'm current have problem to use normal floppy disk in 2.6.0-test6-bk7 > and looking at last patchset I found one possible cause. > > --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig Thu Sep 25 11:33:27 2003 > +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig Thu Oct 2 00:12:22 2003 > @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ > config BLK_DEV_FD > tristate "Normal floppy disk support" > - depends on !X86_PC9800 && !ARCH_S390 > + depends on ISA || M68 || SPARC64 > ---help--- > If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux, > say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM > > Is right normal floppy depends of ISA? I'll include this by the moment > but I doesn't have any ISA hardware in my system. > > Thanks in Advance, > Otavio
Yes. "ISA" has become to mean more than that old 70's era socket on the motherboard. Basically, it's a catch-all for any I/O that doesn't use PCI or AGP. It should probably be renamed to GPIO or OTHER!
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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