Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:11:16 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] Re: RFC: let x86_64 no longer define X86 |
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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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