Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:32:13 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] new bus architecture (+ byte-endianess) |
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Hello,
> > I see that it would be useful for ISA devices, but for PCI we can do this > > easily without using ioremap_io() if we just translate the I/O addresses > > read from the device before passing them to the driver. I'm not sure whether > > this is worth the effort or not as I know of no PCI device where I/O > > accesses would be time critical. > Should not we do it symmetric with MMIO access?
Unfortunately, we have zillions of ISA card drivers which access I/O ports in the old way and unless we can gain anything more than symmetry, is probably isn't wise to convert all of them to ioremap_io().
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Dijkstra probably hates me." -- /usr/src/linux/kernel/sched.c
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