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From: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
	greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, len.brown@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] PCI bridge driver rewrite (rev 02)
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:57:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110239842.12485.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503071543.31089.jbarnes@sgi.com>

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 15:43 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Monday, March 7, 2005 3:39 pm, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > How is sys/bus/platform/* going to work for IA64 machine line SGI SVN?
> > SVN supports multiple simultaneously active legacy spaces, that means
> > that there can be multiple floppy, serial, ps/2, etc controllers.
> > Should these devices be hung off from the bridge they are on?
> 
> Probably, though no one in their right mind is going to put anything like that 
> on these machines (sn2 btw) :).  VGA cards will hopefully be the only devices 
> of this type that we'll have installed.
> 
> Jesse

Well, if the system supports ACPI, then in theory it could have any
number/configuration of legacy devices, and we'd know everything about
them including exactly where to put them in the device tree.  However, I
agree that legacy hardware will be less common in this architecture.

Adam



      reply	other threads:[~2005-03-08  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-07 22:32 Adam Belay
2005-03-07 23:03 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-08  0:20   ` Adam Belay
2005-03-08  4:56     ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-07 23:39 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-07 23:43   ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-07 23:57     ` Adam Belay [this message]

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