On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 10:30:19PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Well, that would work (with X) provided that I implement a remapping
> mecanism similar to Alpha, since currently, with all busses beeing bus
> number 0, X will be messed up.
I believe this is best. Alpha and Sparc64 have done this for
quite a while (2.0 era, iirc), and it seems to have been a
relatively good solution. I can't actually think of anything
you would gain by exposing the forest of busses to userland.
r~
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