Re: New kernel/resource.c

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:33:30 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Tom Leete wrote:
> >
> > To me, the problem with calling it "pci" is that it's likely to be taken
> > literally. People writing for other bus archs will not know or forget that
> > it's for them too. People writing for pci will add pci specializations to
> > it.
>
> But other bus architectures are not even supposed to use it!
>
> It's really only meant to be used by PC IO subsystems (ie PCI, ISA etc).
> So it really =is= meant to be specific to one bus type (admittedly that
> bus type is a superset of PCI itself, but it's NOT supposed to ever be
> used as a "every bus" kind of resource).

My question is, is it intended to be used by the MCA-bus as well? It has
nothing (!) to do with the PCI-bus or the ISA-bus, and it's in quite a few
PC's (admittedly none newer than a Pentium, but anyway)

/David Weinehall
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