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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: APUS and IOs question
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 17:45:43 +0100
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> That, and that the 604e+ probably doesn't reorder accesses that much
> anyway that the barriers would do any good here. :-)

Is there any reason though to have APUS-specific I/O accessors
instead of using the generic stuff (except for perhaps a minor
performance hit)?


Segher