linux-kernel - Re: ultrastor.c is a bit-rot

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Message-ID: <20080323171652.GF10722@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:16:52 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ultrastor.c is a bit-rot

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:24:03AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> >Hmm interesting, so someone took the VGA thing and made a storage device
> >for it. Did that ever happen with AGP? Any AGP scsi cards. I guess I can
> >Google for it.
> 
> A lot less likely, IMO.  Unlike AGP-PCI, VLB slots were compatible with 
> ISA cards, and the electricals were less complex, so several motherboard 
> manufacturers built boards with 3 or more VESA slots (I think I saw a 
> board with 6 at one point.)
> 
> AGP electricals pretty much require that it be point to point.

... not that VLB didn't suck badly with several devices attached at the same
time.  I would be rather surprised if that board would work if fully populated
with VLB cards, all in active use.  IOW, a likely explanation is that it
had a warning along the lines of "use of more than <number> of VLB cards
at the same time may use instability" buried in documentation and proud
"6 VLB slots!!!" touted by marketing...

I can't find VLB specs online, but IIRC 3 had been the limit and anything
past that had been very much out of spec and likely to screw you.
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