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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
To: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kevin Paul Herbert <kph@cisco.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Removal of ____raw_readq() and ____raw_writeq() from asm-mips/io.h
Date: 29 Jan 2004 05:35:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq0znc79h4s.fsf@wildopensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040128150828.A19525@linux-mips.org>

>>>>> "Ladislav" == Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org> writes:

Ladislav> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:49:58AM -0500, Jes Sorensen
Ladislav> wrote:
>> If you are accessing memory mapped registers or memory on a PCI
>> device, ie. likely on a 1250, you *must* use the readX/__raw_readX
>> macros. Anybody just doing *reg = val on a PCI device should be
>> banned from writing code for life!

Ladislav> eh? I said nothing about PCI device. These ____raw_writeq
Ladislav> are used in board specific code. Anyway, defining struct
Ladislav> sb_registers and ioremaping it would be nice solution (I
Ladislav> didn't read code too carefully, so maybye not in this
Ladislav> particular case where registers are 64bit width, but I
Ladislav> definitely prefer it in board specific code over
Ladislav> read[bwl]/write[bwl]). Also readq/writeq seems mips
Ladislav> specific, so rants about portability doesn't apply.

Very wrong!

the readX/writeX macro names are for PCI and busses with similar
properties. One should never access anything through readX/writeX
without ioremaping it first.

readq/writeq are not mips specific, they are available on all/most 64
bit architectures, so portability rants do apply.

Jes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-29 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-28  1:58 Removal of ____raw_readq() and ____raw_writeq() from asm-mips/io.h Kevin Paul Herbert
2004-01-28  9:40 ` Ladislav Michl
2004-01-28 10:49   ` Jes Sorensen
2004-01-28 15:08     ` Ladislav Michl
2004-01-28 16:01       ` Ralf Baechle
2004-01-29 10:35       ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2004-01-28 14:30 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-01-28 15:00   ` Ralf Baechle

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