Re: New resources - pls, explain :-(
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:37:14 +0100 (BST)
> On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 11:25:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I like rth's suggestion about having bus-specific ioremap() instead of a
> > > generic one; then all readl() etc. would go through that, and do "the
> >
> > Its cute but if you think harder the implementation would suck
>
> Would it. And the current three-ring circus one has to go through
> to reverse-engineer information that the driver could just bleeding
> well give us in the first place doesn't suck?
How do you propose to implement bus specific ioremap efficiently on the
majority of CPU's which don't have magic endian bits in the MMU, don't have
magic coherency bits in the MMU.
Alan
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