On 27/08/18 17:45, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Actually, looking at this driver more - it has been depending on > BROKEN since 2007!
Hi, I'd forgotten that it was in BROKEN state. The issue was that the driver was fully functioning, but it clashed with the graphics aperture driver - both use different registers within the same PCI device - it was marked broken on the basis that the with the kernel PCI device allocation code as it stood at the time, if the i82443bxgx_edac driver was loaded first, the graphics aperture configuration driver could not also be loaded, and this could break existing setups. As far as I remember, it was left was that Greg KH had said that he was working on a change to the PCI device allocation code which would allow both to coexist. I don't know if that happened. The last CPU which used these chipsets (130nm Pentium III) were released in 2001. I don't know when they were produced up until. On that basis, I don't see a problem with removing it, but if there's a preference for me to fix it, (and if I still have some old hardware somewhere that I can test it on), I'll be happy to do that instead. Tim.