Subject: Re: ISA direct config of ACPI devices
To: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/22/2007 13:06:21
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> jmcneill@invisible.ca said:
>> This is not the problem I'm trying to solve.
>
> So what else? As said, we should rather move away from isa.
My intent was to give a proper structure to the device tree, required for
the power management branch.
When it comes down to it, these ACPI / PNPBIOS enumerated devices are ISA
devices anyway. Like it or not, isa(4) is not going away any time soon on
x86.
Cheers,
Jared