Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] alpha: provide ioread64 and iowrite64 implementations | From | Richard Henderson <> | Date | Sat, 24 Jun 2017 08:25:30 -0700 |
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On 06/24/2017 08:19 AM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > Hey, > > On 24/06/17 09:13 AM, Richard Henderson wrote: >> All Alpha hosts except for Jensen provide 64-bit I/O operations. >> >> Jensen is EISA only, so there ought not be any devices that even >> attempt such operations. But just in case, use 2 32-bit operations. > > Thanks for this, Richard. > > However, I was recently enlightened by the existence of the > linux/io-64-nonatomic* headers. This is where the 2 32-bit operation > functions belong. So you should probably remove them from this patch and > let drivers that need them just include those headers.
This has nothing to do with drivers.
This is all about providing 64-bit operations for the 99.999% of alphas that do have them.
r~
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