Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

Matthew Wilcox
2008-01-29T23:57:28Z

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:29:51AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Right now, that isn't a lot of people in x86 land, but your patch
> > encumbers drivers for non-x86 archs with an additional call to access
> > space that they've never had a problem with.
>
> lets say s/x86/x86, IA64 and architectures that use intel, amd or via chipsets/

Umm .. ia64 already does exactly what I'm proposing for x86. It uses
one SAL interface for bytes below 256 and a different SAL interface for
bytes 256-4095.

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