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SubjectRe: New resources - pls, explain :-(
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> 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

> right thing" for that bus. One could add "bigendian_writel()" and
> "littleendian_writel()" to satisfy the Linus constraint of making
> unusual usage of writel() obvious.

So every I/O has an if in it. Nothing like stalling the pipeline before we
probably stall on I/O writes to make things twice as painful.

Alan


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