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

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 2:34 pm, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?

I'm OK with that, but don't want to be responsible for coming up
with the list of systems where it should be available :-)
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