Re: [PATCH] make PIIX4 ide driver available for MIPS

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 04:43:39PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > Malta uses this chip.  The native driver does provide significant gain in 
> > performance.  See attached bonnie++ test results.
> 
>  It's actually weird there are any CPU conditionals there at all.  The
> PIIX4 is a generic PCI-ISA bridge after all, so it can be used on any
> system equipped with a PCI bus.  DEC Alpha systems used to use Intel's
> bridges for EISA and ISA busses as well.

I bet it's historical reasons and the whole architecture conditional
plain should go away ...

  Ralf