Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:16:18 +1200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote: > > Well, I'd like to keep my x86 box up and alive, to support EISA FDDI > equipment I maintain if nothing else -- which in particular means the > current head version of Linux, not some ancient branch.
So if we actually have a user, and it works, then no, we're not removing EISA support. It's not like it hurts us or is in some way fundamentally broken, like the old i386 code was (i386 kernel page fault semantics really were broken, and the lack of some instructions made it more painful to maintain than needed - not like EISA at all, which is just a pure add-on on the side).
Linus
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