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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [POWERPC] convert string i/o operations to C
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:42:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28673.1158669778@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060919222351.d27a1a06.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> +void _insb(volatile u8 __iomem *port, void *buf, int ns)
> +{
> +	asm volatile("sync");
> +	if (ns <= 0)
> +		return;

What is "ns" meant to do?  It seems to degrade the _insb() op to just a sync,
but is that correct?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-19 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-19 12:23 [POWERPC] convert string i/o operations to C Stephen Rothwell
2006-09-19 12:42 ` David Howells [this message]
2006-09-19 23:07   ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-09-19 18:29 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-09-19 18:52   ` Kim Phillips
2006-09-19 18:58     ` Matt Sealey
2006-09-19 19:10       ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-19 19:20         ` Matt Sealey
2006-09-19 19:47           ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-19 23:17           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-19 23:14       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-19 19:04     ` Linas Vepstas
2006-09-19 19:06   ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-19 23:12   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-20  0:03     ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20  0:08       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-20  0:29         ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20  3:35 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-09-20  4:38   ` Michael Ellerman

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