Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms

2015-01-21 Thread tedheadster
I too have old EISA systems that I am using with current kernels. They're good for testing, having uncovered a kernel bug previously with Thomas Gleixner: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/13/424 - Matthew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms

2015-01-21 Thread tedheadster
I too have old EISA systems that I am using with current kernels. They're good for testing, having uncovered a kernel bug previously with Thomas Gleixner: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/13/424 - Matthew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms

2015-01-20 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Well, I'd like to keep my x86 box up and alive, to support EISA FDDI > > equipment I maintain if nothing else -- which in particular means the > > current head version of Linux, not some ancient branch. > > So if we actually have a user, and it

Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms

2015-01-20 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote: Well, I'd like to keep my x86 box up and alive, to support EISA FDDI equipment I maintain if nothing else -- which in particular means the current head version of Linux, not some ancient branch. So if we actually have a user, and it works, then

Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms

2015-01-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Well, I'd like to keep my x86 box up and alive, to support EISA FDDI > equipment I maintain if nothing else -- which in particular means the > current head version of Linux, not some ancient branch. So if we actually have a user, and

Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms

2015-01-19 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > The Kconfig text says it all, with "The EISA bus saw limited use > between 1988 and 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus." > > That means typically 486/586 CPUs in the 33-166MHz range, and > 8-64MB of installed RAM in typical EISA machines of

[PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms

2015-01-19 Thread Paul Gortmaker
The Kconfig text says it all, with "The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus." That means typically 486/586 CPUs in the 33-166MHz range, and 8-64MB of installed RAM in typical EISA machines of that era. With the additional cost, they were also

[PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms

2015-01-19 Thread Paul Gortmaker
The Kconfig text says it all, with The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. That means typically 486/586 CPUs in the 33-166MHz range, and 8-64MB of installed RAM in typical EISA machines of that era. With the additional cost, they were also

Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms

2015-01-19 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, Paul Gortmaker wrote: The Kconfig text says it all, with The EISA bus saw limited use between 1988 and 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus. That means typically 486/586 CPUs in the 33-166MHz range, and 8-64MB of installed RAM in typical EISA machines of that

Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86: drop support for 1995 era EISA based platforms

2015-01-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki ma...@linux-mips.org wrote: Well, I'd like to keep my x86 box up and alive, to support EISA FDDI equipment I maintain if nothing else -- which in particular means the current head version of Linux, not some ancient branch. So if we actually