On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 15:43 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Monday, March 7, 2005 3:39 pm, Jon Smirl wrote: > > How is sys/bus/platform/* going to work for IA64 machine line SGI SVN? > > SVN supports multiple simultaneously active legacy spaces, that means > > that there can be multiple floppy, serial, ps/2, etc controllers. > > Should these devices be hung off from the bridge they are on? > > Probably, though no one in their right mind is going to put anything like > that > on these machines (sn2 btw) :). VGA cards will hopefully be the only devices > of this type that we'll have installed. > > Jesse
Well, if the system supports ACPI, then in theory it could have any number/configuration of legacy devices, and we'd know everything about them including exactly where to put them in the device tree. However, I agree that legacy hardware will be less common in this architecture. Adam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/