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From: "Dale Farnsworth" <dale@farnsworth.org>
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Subject: Re: Yosemite/440EP why are readl()/ioread32() setup to
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In article <20060202090827.GA12810@gate.ebshome.net> you write:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:09:17AM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > On 2/2/06, Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > > > What is the preferred way of accessing non-PCI devices then? Direct
> > > > pointer access?
> > >
> > > No direct pointer access is bad. On PPC You can use
> > > in_be{8,16,32}/out_be{8,16,32}
> > 
> > What about arch independent drivers? Are there any generic approach
> > for this or do you have to stick to ugly #ifdefs to decide between
> > in_be32/inl ?
> 
> I'm curious, could you give an example of such arch independent 
> driver?

Such #ifdefs are found in drivers/net/smc91x.h

-Dale