From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: new asm-mips/io.h
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:06:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011127180648.H29424@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011127.130406.104026562.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp>; from nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:04:06PM +0900
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:04:06PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> ralf> Aside of that I don't think we'll have any alternative to do
> ralf> something along the lines of your patch. There are for example
> ralf> systems where the high 8 bits of the I/O or memory address on
> ralf> the ISA bus are supplied in a separate register of the chipset,
> ralf> not as part of the memory address itself. It's really
> ralf> remarkable how much bad taste some hardware designers have ...
>
> So, what should we do for these tasteless hardware?
Punish it's developers with fish and chips [1].
> Is there any suggestions? (please don't say "Do not eat" ...)
Not a bad idea in context of fish and chips.
Well, talk to it's developers before it's too late. Or as it has already
happened for some hardware I think we should simply go with your
suggestion and make all those functions vectors.
Ralf
[1] Unavoidable part of the Australian experience
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-27 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-26 3:35 new asm-mips/io.h Atsushi Nemoto
2001-11-26 9:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-11-27 4:04 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2001-11-27 7:06 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-11-27 10:10 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2001-11-27 14:19 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-11-27 17:44 ` Jun Sun
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