From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl>
To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] IDE clean 12 3rd attempt
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:45:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020224204513.A32303@fenrus.demon.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202241954.g1OJsPA32151@fenrus.demon.nl> <3C7946D9.1020908@evision-ventures.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C7946D9.1020908@evision-ventures.com>; from dalecki@evision-ventures.com on Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:02:33PM +0100
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:02:33PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> >
> > it was about the i386 architecture, not just 80386 cpus. And yes 2.4 still
> > runs on those; you'be surprised how many
> > embedded systems run 80386 equivalents...
>
> Interresting. But do they still incorporate ST509 and other
> archaic controllers? Or do they have broken BIOS-es which don't
> setup the geometry information properly? I don't think so.
You bet that embedded systems use controllers that emulate archaic ones.
Oh and bios.... well......
> Well now I'm quite convinced. We can point those people to the legacy
> single host driver anyway... And then the tradeoff goes just in favour
> of supporting more and more common new hardware - it will just make
> more people happy than it will make people loose :-).
If you drop hardware support for no good reason.... you scare me. you
really do. Now dropping hardware support (or moving support
elsewhere) isn't always avoidable, but I'd think you need a pretty
good reason to do so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-24 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-24 13:52 Andries.Brouwer
2002-02-24 19:47 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-24 19:54 ` arjan
2002-02-24 20:02 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-24 20:45 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2002-02-24 21:05 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-24 21:03 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-02-24 19:58 ` [PATCH] IDE clean 13 Martin Dalecki
2002-02-24 21:17 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-28 9:44 ` [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] IDE clean 12 3rd attempt Pavel Machek
2002-02-28 14:19 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-28 18:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-28 18:13 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-24 20:02 ` Eric Krout
2002-02-24 20:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-25 11:45 ` Paul Gortmaker
2002-02-25 12:03 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-25 1:29 Andries.Brouwer
2002-02-25 1:33 Andries.Brouwer
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