On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:35:56AM -0000, Jenkins, Clive wrote: > A driver for some device that could be connected to (or plugged into) > a variety of different platforms of different architecture. > A driver for a core that could be implemented within an FPGA on > multiple platforms.
Well, this is all nice but I was wondering about _real_ examples. When you are talking about "connecting" or "plugging" you have to keep in mind actual bus interconnect. So far AFAIK PCI (and derivatives) are the only cross-arch bus. So basically, you have no _real_ life examples, so I'm wondering why people need this "arch-independent" non-PCI I/O accessors for something which doesn't exist. I think the reason why Linux doesn't have this stuff follows from the previous paragraph. -- Eugene
