Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] early machvec init for 2.5

From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes_at_sgi.com>
Date: 2003-06-04 04:06:22
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:00:28PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:05:17PM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote:
> > I think that this patch is still worth including, just so that
> > early printk works for GENERIC, although with a slight increase in
> > internal complexity.
> 
> I'd prefer to see the readb() et al calls move out of the machvec.  Is
> there really no better way to work around this hardware braindamage?

No, unfortunately.  But then inX/outX and readX aren't expected to be
very fast anyway.

Jesse
Received on Tue Jun 03 11:12:29 2003

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