On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 02:59  PM, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> No, the bus and the CPU can have different ideas about how memory is 
> layed
> out. That's why there is a lot of complexity in the bus_space code. 
> When
> Jason was at NASA, he was working with Alphas that have this issue, so 
> he
> worked it into bus_space.

bus_dma, but other than that, the rest of this is true :-)

(I did also work on bus_space while at NASA, but bus_dma is what is 
relevant to this conversation :-)

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>