Re: [RFC] remove bus_memio.h and bus_pio.h

From: Doug Rabson (dfr_at_nlsystems.com)
Date: 05/26/05

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    To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:33:47 +0100

    On Wednesday 25 May 2005 18:40, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
    > On May 25, 2005, at 10:19 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote:
    > > Short answer:
    > >
    > > Great idea.
    >
    > Seconded.

    Thirded.

    >
    > > Longer, more detailed answer.
    > >
    > > The original idea was to provide a hint to busspace that this
    > > driver only ever used a certain subset of the available mappings so
    > > it should assume that subset and agressively optimize the code.
    >
    > It has also worked against, well, me in the past in that I couldn't
    > figure out why a driver simply didn't want to work with memio while
    > it worked perfectly with pio. Then I spotted the bus_pio.h header at
    > the top and cursed, cursed, cursed.
    >
    > I'm all for performance tuning, but the newbus optimization is just
    > too weird for its own good this way.

    Hey, don't blame this on newbus - it predates newbus by quite a bit. I
    seem to remember that this came in with the first import of CAM so you
    can blame Justin :-)
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