Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:19:26 -0700 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce PCI <-> CPU address conversion [1/2] |
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:39:24PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I can't use it in the symbios driver because it only exists on alpha, > arm, mips, parisc, ppc, ppc64, sparc64 and v850. It doesn't exist on > i386, ia64, x86_64, arm26, cris, h8300, m32r, sh, sh64 or sparc.
So you conclude from 50% of the ports implementing things in a particular way that you should invent a totally new interface? Isn't the obvious solution to implement the existing interface for the ports that don't have it?
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