Subject: re: Need sparc openboot reference (fwd)
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/29/1999 22:09:12
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> One of the things I'm considering is to change the drivers to access all
> device registers through the passthrough ASIs so the registers never need
> to be mapped in. The problem is that then I would need to rewrite all
> drivers to properly use the bus_space_{read,write}*() macros for all
> register accesses.
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> problem!? this would be excellent, not a problem! :-)
And on that note, I just finished converting isp_sbus- I dunno how it
managed to not have bus_space_XXXX stuff...
I'd wonder about the performance of using ASI's....