Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 13:40:45 +0900 From: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org> To: gjp@erols.net (Gary Palmer) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port Message-ID: <16085.882074445@coconut.itojun.org> In-Reply-To: gjp's message of Sat, 13 Dec 1997 23:33:49 EST. <199712140433.XAA17136@mutara.noc.erols.net>
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>> pccard/pcic.c >> pci/aic7870.c >> pci/if_de.c >> pci/ncr.c >> pci/tek390.c >> pci/wd82371.c >What makes you think outb is i386 specific? Surely since it is defined >in a machine header to some asm fn, what it really means is that >it is GNU C specific? If you think about it, if a platform needed >a bit of complexity to do inb/outb, you #define them to funciton >calls. hardware I/O model is CPU specific. There are architectures that do not have inb/outb instruction, and maps I/O device control registers onto memory. I dunno how Sparc-with-PCI motherboard access pci registers, but I'm sure there has to be bunch of changes. itojun
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