[parisc-linux] fbcon diff

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 06:15:41PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> I absolutely agree with you.

As Larry McVoy says, that's a great way to start an email :-)

> The part behind "#elif defined(__hppa__) && !(USE_HPPA_IOREMAP)" should and 
> will go away anyway, but the change from direct memory addressing to 
> readX()/writeX() modifies generic linux code, could break other arches and 
> should IMHO be discussed with Geert, Alan Cox or Linus directly and not be 
> changed reclusively in our tree.

Certainly our tree should not be the only one making this change.

BTW, I figured out what the problem is with your ioremap
change.  You haven't modified read[bwlq], write[bwlq]
to do non-absolute addressing.  My original three ideas
all called for making this change to {read,write}[bwl]
http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2001-March/011914.html

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