Subject: Re: uiomove and bus-ified drivers
To: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/18/1997 12:11:25
> I agree that a portable way to do the IO without the extra copy would
> be a win in general. However a bus-spaceified version of uiomove()
> doesn't look trivial at first glance, because of copyin() and
> copyout() which are MD.
But aren't all the bus-space routines M.D. anyway? It'd basically
be munging a bus space read with the kernel side of copyin() and
copyout().
Take care,
Bill