Keep mach64 pci only

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 22:44:29 PST 2007


On 1/27/07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > The attached patchset drops support for pre-mach64 and non-pci cards from
> > xf86-video-ati. Is it based on the work by Luc Verhaegen. I think it is
> > acceptable because (with a bit of salt :-) the only effective functionality
> > loss should be mach32 video modes and it facilitates pci-rework porting of
> > atimisc and the ati wrapper. The branch has been tested only on a
> > RagePro/i386.
> >
> > So, speak if you have strong reasons not to merge the branch. Also, ideally
> > it should be tested on some other card/arch before merging, so please test
> > if possible. In the absence of testing, I'll probably merge the first half
> > of the branch now and the rest in due time.
>
> Isn't sparc at least using mach64 non PCI ?
>

I'm pretty sure they're PCI.  I don't think they made sbus mach64s,
but I could be wrong.

Alex

> Ben.
>


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