On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 04:55 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 01:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>> Anyway, what do you think of Jeff proposal to just implement them as two
> >>> 32 bits operations ? My arch guy side screams at the idea, but if,
> >>> indeed, drivers generally cope fine with it, I suppose that's ok.
> >> Last I saw, that's how normal PCI will split the IO anyway, so I guess it 
> >> makes sense.
> > 
> > Hrm.. true indeed. I'll implement them that way for ppc32 then.
> 
> Bonus points if you want to find-and-kill where individual drivers did
> 
>       #ifndef readq
>       implement readq and writeq by hand...
>       #endif

Yes, well, we would have to make sure all archs have them defined
first though, but I suppose I can have a look later this week, maybe
tomorrow. Shouldn't be too hard :)

Ben.



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