On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 11:12:44AM +0100, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> Alpha (at least earlier implementations) is not able to do memory access
> smaller than 32 bits and required some sparce space to be used for 16 bits
> and 8 bits MMIO access. This makes use of MMIO more complex and, AFAIK,
AFAIK, this is only true for 21064/6, but not for the current 21164.
There was this MoBo, called Jensen, where you had to do a lot of dirty
tricks to get device drivers and XF86 to run.
Some alpha specialists may know better ...
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