On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Thomas Koeller wrote:
> my platform (PMC-Sierra Yosemite in big endian mode),
> like many others, uses ioremap() to map device
> registers, such as the RM9000's OCD registers.
> To access those registers, the return value of
> ioremap() is casted to a suitable pointer type and
> dereferenced. This of course works, but the return
> value of ioremap() is documented not to be a
> directly dereferenceable pointer value, and accesses
> to ioremapped addresses should be performed using
> the readx/writex APIs.
In theory, ioremap() and readb() and friends are meant for PCI memory space
only. RM9000's OCD registers are not PCI memory space, so there's no strict
guarantee readb() and friends will actually work.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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