On Fri, 22 Jan 2016, William Breathitt Gray wrote: > Many motherboards utilize a LPC to ISA bridge in order to decode > ISA-style port-mapped I/O addresses. This is particularly true for > embedded motherboards supporting the PC/104 bus (a bus specification > derived from ISA). > > These motherboards are now commonly running 64-bit x86 processors. The > X86_32 dependency should be removed from the ISA bus configuration > option in order to support these newer motherboards. > > A new config option, CONFIG_ISA_BUS, is introduced to allow for the > compilation of the ISA bus driver independent of the CONFIG_ISA option. > Devices which communicate via ISA-compatible buses can now be supported > independent of the dependencies of the CONFIG_ISA option. > > Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
