From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:07:10 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1601271106570.3886@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160122162806.GA18788@sophia>
On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> Many motherboards utilize a LPC to ISA bridge in order to decode
> ISA-style port-mapped I/O addresses. This is particularly true for
> embedded motherboards supporting the PC/104 bus (a bus specification
> derived from ISA).
>
> These motherboards are now commonly running 64-bit x86 processors. The
> X86_32 dependency should be removed from the ISA bus configuration
> option in order to support these newer motherboards.
>
> A new config option, CONFIG_ISA_BUS, is introduced to allow for the
> compilation of the ISA bus driver independent of the CONFIG_ISA option.
> Devices which communicate via ISA-compatible buses can now be supported
> independent of the dependencies of the CONFIG_ISA option.
>
> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-27 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-22 16:28 William Breathitt Gray
2016-01-27 10:07 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2016-02-22 4:35 ` William Breathitt Gray
2016-02-22 18:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-22 19:31 ` Greg KH
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