1. 23 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86: remove the Voyager 32-bit subarch · 965c7eca
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Impact: remove unused/broken code
      
      The Voyager subarch last built successfully on the v2.6.26 kernel
      and has been stale since then and does not build on the v2.6.27,
      v2.6.28 and v2.6.29-rc5 kernels.
      
      No actual users beyond the maintainer reported this breakage.
      Patches were sent and most of the fixes were accepted but the
      discussion around how to do a few remaining issues cleanly
      fizzled out with no resolution and the code remained broken.
      
      In the v2.6.30 x86 tree development cycle 32-bit subarch support
      has been reworked and removed - and the Voyager code, beyond the
      build problems already known, needs serious and significant
      changes and probably a rewrite to support it.
      
      CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER has been marked BROKEN then. The maintainer has
      been notified but no patches have been sent so far to fix it.
      
      While all other subarchs have been converted to the new scheme,
      voyager is still broken. We'd prefer to receive patches which
      clean up the current situation in a constructive way, but even in
      case of removal there is no obstacle to add that support back
      after the issues have been sorted out in a mutually acceptable
      fashion.
      
      So remove this inactive code for now.
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      965c7eca
  2. 03 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86 setup: a20: early timeout for a nonexistent keyboard controller · 3bd323a1
      H. Peter Anvin 提交于
      When probing the keyboard controller to enable A20, if we get FF back
      (which is *possible* as a valid status word, but is extremely
      unlikely) then bail after much fewer iterations than we otherwise
      would, and abort the attempt to access the KBC.
      
      This hopefully should make it work a lot better for embedded platforms
      which don't have a KBC and where the BIOS doesn't implement
      INT 15h AX=2401h (and doesn't boot with A20 already enabled.)
      
      If this works, it will be the one remaining use of CONFIG_X86_ELAN as
      anything other than a processor type optimization option.
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      3bd323a1
  3. 28 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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      x86: setup: issue a null command after enabling A20 via KBC · aa60d13f
      H. Peter Anvin 提交于
      Apparently, DOS and possibly other legacy operating systems issued a
      null command to the keyboard controller after toggling A20,
      specifically "pulse output pins" with no output pins specified.  This
      was presumably done for synchronization reasons.  This has made it
      into at least the UHCI spec, and it has been found to cause
      compatibility problems when "legacy USB" is enabled (which it almost
      always is) to not have this byte sent.
      
      It is *NOT* clear if any of these compatibility problems has any
      effect on Linux.  However, for maximum compatibility, issue this null
      command after togging A20 through the KBC.
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      aa60d13f
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