On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:22, Matthew Wilcox<matthew@xxxxxx> wrote: > Do you want us to start working on an 8-byte atomic access method inside > the kernel? As I said before, it won't be available on all systems. > > Or should we stand firm against this bad habit of putting a 64-bit > register in config space? I'm not sure there is much we can do about it. At least Intel already has hardware with 64-bit registers in config space on the market. I imagine there will be others. Having said that, my current case doesn't require it, but I am sure it would be nice. wt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
