[parisc-linux] FB cleanups

Matthew Wilcox matthew@wil.cx
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:22:05 +0100


On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:04:53PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> 
> Yes, except that ISA has stronger semantics than PCI.

You need to issue a read after a write to be sure the write hit the
device on ISA?

> >> 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.

huh?  the fb code is ugly precisely because people aren't using
readb/writeb to access device memory.

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