libpciaccess x86 backend

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 12:42:30 PST 2010


On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This adds support on x86 for OSes that do not have a PCI interface, tinkering
> with I/O ports, and makes use of it on GNU/Hurd.
>

Now this might be a dumb question but how to hurd drivers interact
with the PCI layer,
they all just bang on it directly?

It just seems lazy to add a direct to hw code again in userspace when
clearly the kernel
should be able for it, not that I really mind, I'm just hoping other
OSes don't get this lazy,
which marking this code as generic x86 might make them.

Dave.



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