Re: [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 00:44, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:
> 
> > Actually its to cover the case where you have a floppy drive, and you've
> > booted the kernel from a floppy disk, and the kernel doesn't have the
> > floppy driver built in.  It turns the floppy drive off, cause there's
> > nothing else to do that.
> 
> this should then be done by the floppy boot code?

Most definitely. On legacy free boxes there may not even be a floppy
controller present, and on non x86 your guess is as good as mine at
where the fdc lives.

Alan