[parisc-linux] FB cleanups

Jes Sorensen jes@linuxcare.com
17 Apr 2001 20:04:53 +0200


>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

>> Well time to go study the bus behaviors and compare them then. How
>> does gsc behave wrt cache coherency, read-around-write, write
>> ordering etc etc.

Alan> And ISA is noticable for the fact it doesnt behave quite like
Alan> PCI. You use readb/readw/readl on ISA.

Yes, except that ISA has stronger semantics than PCI.

>> Using writeb on a gsc is misleading everybody else who reads the
>> code into believing that it's a PCI device.

Alan> Rubbish.

Unfortunately not, look at the fb code to see the chaos.

Jes