>From: Mike Long <mikel@shore.net>
>
>The extra copy may be inefficient but it may be required if the space
>from which bus_space_read_multi_1() is copying is sparsely addressed,
>e.g. one byte of valid data per 32-bit word.

That isn't the case with this card.  It only has 24 valid bits per
word, but the missing high-order byte can be ignored.  Anything
written to it is ignored, and it reads back as garbage, but for the
purposes of the driver that's quite all right.

Cheers,
entropy

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