linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Decouple X86_32 dependency from the ISA Kconfig option

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Message-ID: <20160413121515.GA23870@sophia>
Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 08:15:15 -0400
From:	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Decouple X86_32 dependency from the ISA Kconfig
 option

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 09:26:02AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>What's the practical motivation of this? What exact hardware is this for?
>
>Thanks,
>
>	Ingo

The PC/104 bus is equivalent to the ISA bus regarding software
communication. Many small form factor systems have a PC/104 bus where
PC/104 cards may be stacked. Nowadays, these systems are commonly
running 64-bit processors such as the Intel Atom.

I would like to utilize the ISA bus driver to support these PC/104
devices (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/7/418), but the ISA
configuration option has an arbitrary X86_32 dependency. Decoupling the
X86_32 dependency from the ISA configuration option will allow these
PC/104 drivers to build for 64-bit architectures.

The existing kernel drivers which I intend to utilize the ISA bus driver
in a X86_64 architecture for PC/104 support are the ACCES 104-DIO-48E
GPIO driver, the ACCES 104-IDI-48 GPIO driver, the ACCES 104-IDIO-16
GPIO driver, and the Apex Embedded Systems STX104 DAC driver. I have
several more PC/104 devices for which I wish to write drivers, but I
would like to resolve this ISA bus driver situation before submitting
new code.

William Breathitt Gray