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| author | Paul Gortmaker | 2012-05-18 01:06:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Paul Gortmaker | 2012-05-18 01:06:13 +0200 |
| commit | bb8187d35f820671d6dd76700d77a6b55f95e2c5 (patch) | |
| tree | b699b184860cc7e9f2732c73d61ea92e3e2ad9e4 /Documentation/eisa.txt | |
| parent | scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code (diff) | |
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MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.
Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines
that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB
of memory. A quick search on the internet, and you see that
even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest
in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from
the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series.
This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core
kernel code and from the x86 architecture. There is no point in
carrying this any further into the future.
One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up
stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in
the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c).
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/eisa.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/eisa.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/eisa.txt b/Documentation/eisa.txt index 38cf0c7b559f..a55e4910924e 100644 --- a/Documentation/eisa.txt +++ b/Documentation/eisa.txt @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ CONFIG_ALPHA_JENSEN or CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING are set. Converting an EISA driver to the new API mostly involves *deleting* code (since probing is now in the core EISA code). Unfortunately, most -drivers share their probing routine between ISA, MCA and EISA. Special +drivers share their probing routine between ISA, and EISA. Special care must be taken when ripping out the EISA code, so other busses won't suffer from these surgical strikes... |