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| From | William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency |
| Date | 2016-02-22 05:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <r4QrT-9G-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <qTML2-6v3-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <qVvcZ-1UN-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 01/27/2016 05:07 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > 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> What more can I do to help get this patch pulled in for the merge window? William Breathitt Gray
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Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-02-22 05:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-02-22 19:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-22 20:40 +0100
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