Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:30:43 -0500 | From | Andy Isaacson <> | Subject | Re: PCI domain stuff |
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:03:29PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:06:52 -0700 > > Perhaps a libdirectio would be useful? > > The details are very PCI specific, so what you'd be working > on initially is a PCI centric library. > > Over time things can be abstracted, but the initial PCI specific > one would be good enough for xfree86 to link to and make use > of which is a huge step in the right direction.
There is some interest in the NetBSD project for such an API, as well. <fair at netbsd.org> filed xsrc/21986 last week. http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=21986
Perhaps a common implementation could develop.
(OK, I can dream...)
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