[PATCH 3/3] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: introduce localbus and pata nodes

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Wed Nov 28 04:34:11 EST 2007


Anton Vorontsov wrote:

>>>2. "ioport" because shift^Wstride ;-) applies only to the io range
>>>  (yes, it's obvious, but worth open-wording, no?).

>>   Contrarywise, to memory range.

> By io range I meant "I/O base", in contrast to "CTL base".

> There is no need to apply shifting for CTL. That's why ioport-*
> appeared in the first place.

    So, a matter of wrong terminology then. The thing that you meant by "I/O" 
is actually called "command block".

MBR, Sergei



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