From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI domain stuff
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:13:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F01269A.5030801@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030630.230329.35692088.davem@redhat.com>
David S. Miller wrote:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:06:52 -0700
>
> Perhaps a libdirectio would be useful?
>
> The details are very PCI specific, so what you'd be working
> on initially is a PCI centric library.
>
> Over time things can be abstracted, but the initial PCI specific
> one would be good enough for xfree86 to link to and make use
> of which is a huge step in the right direction.
>
Well, "PCI" in this case presumably means
PCI/PCI-X/PCI-Express/AGP/HyperTransport, which covers an amazing number
of the machines actually being used these days. Obviously it doesn't
apply to all, but as you say, it can be abstracted on over time.
-hpa
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2003-07-01 4:05 ` PCI domain stuff Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-01 4:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-01 4:34 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-01 5:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-01 6:02 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-01 6:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-01 6:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-01 6:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-07-01 16:30 ` Andy Isaacson
2003-07-01 16:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
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