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SubjectRe: pre 2.1: Neat Oops with ncrBsd


Oops, sorry for this confusion, but the "PAGE_ADDRESS" below should
obviously be "PAGE_OFFSET" in case anybody actually tests this out..

Linus

On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Hmm, I think I have an idea.
>
> The readb() (and other macros) right now use __va() to change the address
> into a virtual one. But on the x86 we'd actually be better off with a new
> "__io()" macro, which instead of adding PAGE_OFFSET would do a logical OR
> operation.
>
> Could you test this change:
>
> - in include/asm-i386/io.h, add a macro like this:
>
> #define __io(x) ((void *)(PAGE_ADDRESS | (unsigned long)(x)))
>
> - in the same file, change all uses of "__va" to "__io".
>
> That should make things work, and we can easily make it work on the alpha too
> (by making "vremap()" a NULL operation on the alpha, as we don't need any
> remapping, and we can just return the original address)
>
> Linus
>

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