On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Note to linux-kenrel readers: This discussion is the Nth attempt to find
> a solution to handle both legacy IOs and PCI IOs on machines with several
> IO busses memory mapped at different locations in the CPU space.
> Linus: Would you accept this change now ?
>
> #define ISA_PORT(n) (n)
>
> And change to _all_ drivers doing legacy IOs to use that in their in/out
> macros ?
[...]
> My "pet" solution would be to have all legacy drivers request an IO base
> this way
>
> base = isa_get_IO_base(legacy_addr);
>
> The isa_get_IO_base function could then be "tweaked" to recognize known
> legacy addresses and return different bases. (There might still be
> problems with VGA vs. parallell, I don't know x86 world well enough to be
> sure).
Or, more general, treat [PCI] I/O space similar to [PCI] memory space. Just
like we must use ioremap() for memory space:
cookie = ioremap(memory_space_address, size);
x = readb(cookie+offset);
we could have ioportremap() for I/O space:
cookie = ioportremap(io_space_address, size);
x = inb(cookie+offset);
On PC, ioportremap(x) would evaluate to (x). On other platforms, we can do
whatever we want.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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