[Xorg] The big multiconsole nasty
Jesse Barnes
jbarnes at engr.sgi.com
Tue Jul 13 12:40:47 PDT 2004
On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:25 pm, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:09 pm, Egbert Eich wrote:
> > Jesse Barnes writes:
> > > In the arch specific in/out routines you mean? I see lots of lines
> > > like inb(0x3c8) in various drivers and other code...
> >
> > Can you point me to them, please?
>
> There are too many to list. Just do a 'grep -r inb' in hw/xorg. Many of
> the inb calls refer to a base, but in some cases (maybe all cases) the
> IOBase is assumed to be global and unique, rather than per-device or
> per-bus.
Actually, now that I've looked at it some more, it's not *that* bad. There
are some places that use absolute values, but many are relative to a base.
Not all platforms support it though, since many declare their in/out routines
to take unsigned short values...
Jesse
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