[RFC/PATCH] powerpc: Rewrite IO allocation & mapping on powerpc64

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Tue May 15 10:05:45 EST 2007


On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:56:32AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 14 May 2007, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > Where should Olof's PCMCIA space go? The ISA or the PHB range?
> > 
> > It uses the legacy IDE I/O addresses, so it needs to
> > go to the 64kB space. 
> 
> How so? All PCMCIA cards should get configured relative to
> socket->io_offset. At least that is where the address used
> in ide_cs.c comes from.

And that'll require the ioaddr_t change on powerpc, but a 32-bit value
is sufficient.


-Olof



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