Re: removing drivers and ISA support? [Was: Char: correct pci_get_device changes]

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 07:59:56PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>...
> And what about (E)ISA support. When converting to pci probing, should be ISA bus
> support preserved (how much is ISA used in present)? -- it makes code ugly and long.

There seem to be still many running 486 machines - and only the last 486 
boards also had PCI slots.

While deprecating OSS drivers, I got emails from people still using some 
of the ISA cards.

And there are even Pentium 4 boards with ISA slots available.

> regards,

cu
Adrian

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