__ioremap_at() in 2.4.0-test9-pre2
Paul Mackerras
paulus at linuxcare.com.au
Thu Sep 21 09:54:17 EST 2000
Roman Zippel writes:
> > example, inb(0x3f8) won't access the first serial port (this is on
> > machines such as prep and some chrp which have a lot of PC-style
> > devices).
>
> You know that the serial driver supports pci cards? So it's somehow a bad
> example and even for broken drivers it shouldn't be that much of a problem
> to add:
You know that prep and chrp machines usually have a super-I/O chip
that has serial ports at I/O 0x3f8 and 0x2f8? How does support for
pci cards in the serial driver help you there?
> #if __broken__
> #define xxx_inb(base, port) inb(port)
> #else
> #define xxx_inb(base, port) readb(base + port)
> #endif
I can just see Ted T'so adding that extra cruft to the serial driver,
and then Linus accepting the patch. Not.
> All the 8390 based drivers do something like this. (Although currently
> they abuse inb/outb for that.)
Inb/outb are the *correct* things to use for accessing PCI I/O space.
Paul.
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