On 06/15/2011 12:47 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> >> OK, serial-8250 is clearly just plain wrong, since the 8250 series UARTs >> are ubiquitous across just about every platform. >> >> Floppy is special (in the short bus sense), since it is closely tied to >> ISA DMA. Conditionalizing this on ISA DMA makes total sense. > > No it doesn't. It depends on the ISA DMA API, not that the machine has > ISA DMA. > > I have a platform which has no ISA DMA but uses the floppy driver. Please > don't break it. OK, even more case in point, then. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
