Re: ultrastor.c is a bit-rot

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Mar 21 2008 - 16:42:12 EST


Matthew Wilcox wrote:

VESA Local Bus. It was (in some sense) the predecessor of AGP. We
treat it like ISA inside the kernel. On x86, EISA depends on ISA, so
the dependency, while wrong, does not affect any x86 users who have an
EISA card.


Well, one can say VLB was to ISA (a souped-up ISA bus with some of the worst limitations removed) what AGP is to PCI...

-hpa
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