[PATCH 0/9] (mostly) x86 kernel configuration adjustments

[Elliott Mitchell]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 05:38:18AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> On 2023-04-26, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 01:11:13AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > > On 2023-04-26, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > Looks like little of ISA remained on "64", yet some DMA support remained
> > > > due to the generic configuration.  Remove the ISA and ISA DMA support
> > > > from the top-level configuration.  Geode and Legacy though almost
> > > > certainly still need ISA support.
> > > 
> > > You might find that while ISA went away as an addon slot quite quickly,
> > > it still survived rather long for low performance onboard devices (e.g. 
> > > sensors).
> > 
> > I know, I was unsure of when it 100% disappeared.  Do you expect anything
> > besides "legacy" to be used for this type of system though?
> [...]
> 
> Ignoring industrial PCs (where you may still encounter ISA today), 
> you'd have to venture into the pre-LPC days (and AMD, VIA, nVidia 
> might have gone with ISA beyond that) - which might get you into
> the 2005-2009 time frame (anything with an onboard floppy controller
> might be worth looking at - and those were still around into the 
> LGA755/ core2 (x86_64) days - in that particular case probably LPC 
> based though).

Perhaps have "64" and "old64" (or "early64") then?  Seems rather a lot of
legacy disappeared between 2005 and 2010.  FDC, ISA, PATA and AGP were
all common in 2005, yet by 2010 they were non-existant.


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