>>>>> "Brent" == Brent Casavant <bcasavan@xxxxxxx> writes: Brent> That reminds me. Are the people who are working on the Brent> user-level driver effort including a capability similar to Brent> mmiowb()? If we had that capability we could eventually do Brent> away with the change mentioned above. But that would come Brent> after all user-level drivers were coded to include the Brent> mmiowb()-like calls, and existing drivers which provide mmap() Brent> capability directly to hardware go away. Not at present, because the platforms *I'm* mostly targetting at the moment don't need it. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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