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SubjectRe: [discuss] Re: RFC: let x86_64 no longer define X86
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

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