Subject: Re: issues with com and non-PCI platforms.... a proposal
To: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/07/2006 10:51:50
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:13:58PM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 2) use a separate bus space. I don't know of any existing examples
> outside of my AR5212 com driver. In this case I had to implement a
> pretty hefty amount of bus space logic *in com_arbus.c". This seems
> ugly and unwieldy.
This is exactly what e.g. the Amiga port did - and not only for com* cards,
but for a lot of others. I'll say, go that way.
-is