Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> >I will assert (again) that mapping the device registers is an inherently
> >bus-specific operation and should be done by the driver through the use of
> >bus_space*() routines rather than the VM system.
> 
> Agreed. What I'm saying is that that after a bus_space_mmap() has done
> its thing, then converting the ``system physical address'' it returns
> to a (*d_mmap)() entrypoint is an MD operation.  if we want MI drivers
> for mmap'able devices we need an MI hook to do that conversion; end of
> story.

Except, it should _not_ return a "system physical address," it should
return whatever needs to be returned from mmap() for that
architecture.  that's kinda the whole point.

(there's no reason that _i_ can think of to insert Yet Another MD
Operation there; it's _already_ an MD operation.)



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