From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: lift the ioport_resource limit ...
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 14:06:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AF9B173.5E13AD2@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010509162608.C2466@bacchus.dhis.org
Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:35:12AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
>
> > Currently IO_SPACE_LIMIT is 0xffff, which is probably borrowed from the legacy
> > i386 code. Let us remove that limit, so that each machine does not have to
> > laboriously reset it.
>
> ISA?
>
> Ralf
ISA bus?
The PCI IO space essentially extends the ISA bus, which effectively removes
the 0xffff limits.
If you are really paranoid, we can do something like this:
#if defined(CONFIG_ISA) && !defined(CONFIG_PCI)
#define IO_SPACE_LIMIT 0xffff
#else
#define IO_SPACE_LIMIT 0xffffffff
#endif
Jun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-09 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-09 17:35 lift the ioport_resource limit Jun Sun
2001-05-09 19:26 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-05-09 21:06 ` Jun Sun [this message]
2001-05-10 9:43 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-05-10 9:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-05-10 11:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-05-10 18:11 ` Jun Sun
2001-05-10 20:20 ` Ralf Baechle
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