Subject: Re: bus.h style question
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/20/1997 10:44:43
On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure we could make drivers work without a byteswapping version of
> > bus_space_{read,write}_multi_N, (n > 1) but we'd get better drivers
> > for PIO devices if we did have them.
> 
> [...]
> c) Jonathan proposes to provide a bus_space_read_swapped_2(), which would be,
> on little-endian busses like ISA, be equivalent to:

This is really what's being proposed?  After all, this is a bus-specific
thing, so wouldn't the Correct Thing be to define a tag for the
byte-swapping bus space?

--scott