willy@thepuffingroup.com writes:
> What is _this_ section of code intended to do?
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD
> floppy_init();
> #else
> #if !defined (__mc68000__) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC) && !defined(__sparc__)\
> && !defined(CONFIG_APUS) && !defined(__sh__)
> outb_p(0xc, 0x3f2);
> #endif
> #endif
It's to cover the case where you are loading the kernel from a floppy disk,
and said kernel does not have the floppy driver configured in. The outb_p
turns the floppy drives off.
> CONFIG_APUS can only be defined if CONFIG_PPC has been defined, so that's
> redundant. I _assume_ this is supposed to ACK something that the floppy
> drive would have ACKed if it were configured in? In any case, this looks
> really bogus to me, and I think it would probably be better off replaced with
I'd like it see it replaced by a floppy_off() or similar, which the architecture
can define for itself. Who says that the floppy that you're using to boot is
controled via port 0x3f2 in all cases?
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