Re: PATCH: IDE - sensible probing for PCI systems

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 10:19:26 EST


On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > Well, keyboard and mouse are USB these days, serial and parallel are PCI,
> > floppies are not used anymore and the ISA DMA controller would only be
>
> Oh, how I wish this were true!
>
> The pre-production machines I get (i.e. not even on the market yet) still have
> floppy, serial, and PS/2 kbd/mouse.

You must be getting them from wrong vendors. ;-) How about switching to
a reasonable platform that doesn't imply DOS compatibility?

Maciej
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