I too have old EISA systems that I am using with current kernels.
They're good for testing, having uncovered a kernel bug previously
with Thomas Gleixner:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/13/424
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Well, I'd like to keep my x86 box up and alive, to support EISA FDDI
> > equipment I maintain if nothing else -- which in particular means the
> > current head version of Linux, not some ancient branch.
>
> So if we actually have a user, and it work
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>
> Well, I'd like to keep my x86 box up and alive, to support EISA FDDI
> equipment I maintain if nothing else -- which in particular means the
> current head version of Linux, not some ancient branch.
So if we actually have a user, and
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig text says it all, with "The EISA bus saw limited use
> between 1988 and 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus."
>
> That means typically 486/586 CPUs in the 33-166MHz range, and
> 8-64MB of installed RAM in typical EISA machines of
The Kconfig text says it all, with "The EISA bus saw limited use
between 1988 and 1995 when it was made obsolete by the PCI bus."
That means typically 486/586 CPUs in the 33-166MHz range, and
8-64MB of installed RAM in typical EISA machines of that era.
With the additional cost, they were also typ
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