Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:55:35 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: readsw/writesw readsl/writesl |
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Thanks, it was Ben H.
Cheers,
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:23:22 -0700 (PDT) > > Would you consider these for each arch as there are coresponding one for > IOMIO, and life would be better if we had a standard set for MMIO. > > Please consider the request. > > I responded to the private email I got on this subject. > I forget who asked me this, but they said they were working > on this IDE stuff. > > My response was that io_barrier() shall be defined on all > platforms in asm/io.h and that you can then define your > ide_read{l,w,b} as: > > __raw_raw{l,w,b}(...); > io_barrier(); > > So instead of having a million read* variations, we have one that is > standard usage (little endian + I/O barrier) and then a raw variant > where the cpu does nothing special and you have to byte-twiddle and > barrier explicitly. > - > 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/ >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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