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From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: Yosemite/440EP why are readl()/ioread32()
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:26:22AM -0000, Jenkins, Clive wrote:
> I'm not sure all this fuss is justified in response to:
> 
> > What is the preferred way of accessing non-PCI devices then?
> > Direct pointer access?
> > Bye, Peter Korsgaard
> 
> Regardless of what standards or hardware might exist, I would be
> happy if Linux provided alternatives to readl()... that converted
> between big-endian and cpu-endian, so that I could write in my
> driver, for example:

As I pointed out, there are such alternatives. The iomap interface
provides what you need.

-Matt