Messages in this thread | | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:19:37 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: The IO problem on multiple PCI busses |
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Grant Grundler writes: > A nice side effect of this bloat is it will discourage use of I/O > Port space. That's good for everyone, AFAICT. (I know some devices > *only* support I/O port space and I personnally don't care about > them. If someone who does care about one wants to talk to me about > it...fine...I'll help)
There is another case you are ignoring. Some devices support memory space as well as I/O space, but only operate reliably when their I/O space window is used to access it.
It just sounds to me like the hppa pci controllers are crap, especially the GSC one. At least the rope one does something reasonable when you have a 64-bit kernel. The horrors you've told me about the IOMMUs and stream-caches on these chips further confirms my theory :-)
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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