Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:24:43PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> IA64 boxes only have PCI IDE devices, so there's no need to blindly poke
> around in I/O port space.  Poking at things that don't exist causes MCAs
> on HP ia64 systems.

Maybe it should instead depend on those systems where it is available.
Anything but X86?

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