Subject: Re: ACPI/PCI machine - how to completely get rid if ISA ?
To: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/20/2004 10:03:13
Ian Zagorskih wrote:
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> Looks like the i386 kernel code have some internal tight links with ISA bus
> code which arn't removed when ISA bus is abscent in kernel config file.
Yes, it does. There are several devices that are not attached in the
usual way (timer and real-time-clock comes to mind). They are just
wired in and assumes ISA. This is wrong.
>
> Any ideas what can i do with it? Is it possibly to build non-ISA kernels on
> i386?
Only if you rewrite some of the i386 kernel code.
Someone should do it.
-- Lennart