linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 15:18:58 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, JBottomley@...allels.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel
 bus support.

On 05/17/2012 09:40 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines
> that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB
> of memory.  A quick search on the internet, and you see that
> even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest
> in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from
> the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series.
> 
> This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core
> kernel code and from the x86 architecture.  There is no point in
> carrying this any further into the future.
> 
> One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up
> stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in
> the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c).

Enthusiastically

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>

	-hpa


-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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