Re: [Gc-linux-cvs] linux/include/asm-ppc io.h,1.8,1.9

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On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:38:43AM +0200, Albert Herranz wrote:
>  --- aot...@us... escribi?:
> > Instead of working around this with even more #ifdef
> > kludge,
> > just provide these definitions in the
> > platform-specific file.
> > 
> > Besides, this will be moving to include/asm-powerpc/
> > RSN, and, having
> > to maintain ~550 lines for a 3 line delta doesn't
> > seem very practical.
> 
> We still have to maintain io.h for the
> read{b,w,l}/write{b,w,l} tweak anyway...

No. We don't. These are accessors for PCI and other inherently
little-endian busses, only. In any case, the ones we're using
for gamecube don't provide proper memory barriers.

> So currently, and until someone adds big endian
> ioread*/iowrite* support, this change doesn't make too
> much sense.

These are still queued up in patchwork. They should make it upstream
RSN whenever paulus pushes to Linus, like he just did for ppc64.

	Arthur