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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 04:00:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B417B89.6FE1D06A@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3911.994146916@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>

David Howells wrote:
> For example, one board I've got doesn't allow you to do a straight
> memory-mapped I/O access to your PCI device directly, but have to reposition a
> window in the CPU's memory space over part of the PCI memory space first, and
> then hold a spinlock whilst you do it.

Yuck.  Does that wind up making MMIO slower than PIO, on this board?

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | "I respect faith, but doubt is
Building 1024    |  what gives you an education."
MandrakeSoft     |           -- Wilson Mizner

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-03  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-28 13:13 [RFC] I/O Access Abstractions David Howells
2001-06-28 13:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-28 13:55   ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-28 16:02     ` Jes Sorensen
2001-06-29  8:31       ` David Howells
2001-06-29 21:02         ` Jes Sorensen
2001-07-02 14:22         ` David Woodhouse
2001-07-02 15:57           ` David Howells
2001-07-02 16:17             ` David Woodhouse
2001-07-02 16:20               ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02 16:41                 ` David Woodhouse
2001-07-02 16:56                   ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02 18:22                     ` Russell King
2001-07-02 18:26                       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-02 20:10                         ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02 22:08                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-02 22:15                             ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02 23:54                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-03 12:02                                 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-03 14:38                                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-03  2:06                           ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-03  8:38                             ` David Howells
2001-07-07 11:27                               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-07-03  8:15                         ` David Howells
2001-07-03  8:22                           ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-03  8:31                             ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-03  9:00                               ` David Howells
2001-07-03  9:29                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-02 22:10                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-07-03  8:04                     ` David Howells
2001-07-03  7:55                 ` David Howells
2001-07-03  8:00                   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-07-03  8:07                     ` David Howells
2001-07-03 11:53                   ` Alan Cox
2001-07-07 11:26                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
     [not found] <20010702191129.A29246@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
2001-07-03  8:12 ` David Howells

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