linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86

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Message-ID: <56CA9016.3080108@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:35:34 -0500
From:	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com
Cc:	x86@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] base: isa: Remove X86_32 dependency

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 <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

What more can I do to help get this patch pulled in for the merge
window?

William Breathitt Gray