From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753172AbcBVEfh (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:35:37 -0500 Received: from mail-yw0-f173.google.com ([209.85.161.173]:34450 "EHLO mail-yw0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752539AbcBVEfg (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:35:36 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency To: Thomas Gleixner , mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com References: <20160122162806.GA18788@sophia> Cc: x86@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: William Breathitt Gray Message-ID: <56CA9016.3080108@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:35:34 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/27/2016 05:07 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > 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 > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner What more can I do to help get this patch pulled in for the merge window? William Breathitt Gray