On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:42:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 01:35, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > We don't (yet) have a CONFIG_MMIO. ?If we were to have one, I would > > expect it to be akin to SCSI_SYM53C8XX_MMIO, VIA_RHINE_MMIO, > > SUNDANCE_MMIO and TULIP_MMIO. ?ie indicating a preference between PIO > > and MMIO rather than indicating the availability of MMIO. > > Hmm, maybe my terminology wasn't so good, at least you misunderstood > what I wanted to express. PIO is more or less a 386ism, so I tend to > view that as a special case of MMIO. The point with s390 is that there > is neither PIO nor MMIO, which really makes it impossible to use most > of the device drivers, even if you could connect the hardware ;-).
I understood what you wanted; I was just explaining why it's a bad name. CONFIG_STD_IO might be a good name. CONFIG_PCI_IO might be confusing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
