Re: PCI domain stuff

[Andy Isaacson]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:03:29PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:06:52 -0700
> 
>    Perhaps a libdirectio would be useful?
>    
> The details are very PCI specific, so what you'd be working
> on initially is a PCI centric library.
> 
> Over time things can be abstracted, but the initial PCI specific
> one would be good enough for xfree86 to link to and make use
> of which is a huge step in the right direction.

There is some interest in the NetBSD project for such an API, as well.
<fair at netbsd.org> filed xsrc/21986 last week.
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=21986

Perhaps a common implementation could develop.

(OK, I can dream...)

-andy