Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Sep 18 2021 - 13:22:12 EST


On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:17 AM Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Considering you can actually put ISA cards, 8 and 16 bit both,
> into EISA slots, I’d have assumed so. I don’t understand the
> “EISA only” question above.

Oh, it's so long since I had one of those machines I didn't even
remember that EISA took ISA cards too.

But yeah, there are also apparently PCI-based alpha machines with
actual ISA card slots.

Linus