[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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