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It an acpi_generic_address structure defined in include/acpi/actbl2.h.
It's an address that can be in memory, I/O, or PCI configuration space.
The definition is at http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/onnow/LF-ACPI.asp
- -Corey
Jeff Garzik wrote:
|On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:26:13AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
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|>Is there a way in the ACPI code to do a request/release of I/O or memory
|>with an acpi_generic_address? Does it even make sense to do this?
|>There are generic I/O routines for using a generic address, and I'm
|>working with an ACPI table that has a generic address, so it would seem
|>to make sense to have memory reservation routines through this, too.
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|Can you define a generic address?
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|IIRC, ACPI needs some work in this area.
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|If the "generic address" is host RAM, that's easy.
|If the generic address is PIO address, that's mostly easy.
|If the generic address is MMIO address, that takes a bit of care with
|mapping, and I'm not sure ACPI gets it right in these cases.
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| Jeff
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