>    In order to really do this properly, the m68k ports should probably 
>    implement the <machine/bus.h> interface designed by cgd...then, it might 
>    even be possible to share things like the 8390 driver with the i386 port...
> 
> No.  On the i386, the cards are mapped through I/O space; on the
> others, they're mapped in memory space.  Chris's interface does not
> deal with such conflicts.

Nor can it, without imposing unnecessary speed penalties on devices
that don't need to deal with that case.

i figure, if you're writing a device that has to deal with that case,
and you _really_ _really_ _really_ want it to work with both memory
and I/O spaces, you'll do one of two things:
	(1) #ifdef, which is plenty fast, but will only let you
	    use one method, in any given kernel, or
	(2) run-time test a flag, which is slower, but which will
	    let you do whatever you want.

I wasn't willing to force people to abide by my decision for what to
do, so i left it to driver authors.  Quite frankly, i don't think
_either_ decision makes sense, for all sets of drivers, and were I to
do it beneath the interface, i'd _have_ to do (2) on the i386.  (Which
would suck, especially for simple memory reads/writes.  On the alpha,
all is memory mapped, so memory and I/O space reads are equally
efficient, bus access and cycle issues aside.)

You will not that I/O and memory operations do have the same set of
arguments, etc., though on different architectures their arguments'
types may be different.


chris