Re: PCI domain stuff

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:13:46 -0700


David S. Miller wrote:
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> 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.
>

Well, "PCI" in this case presumably means
PCI/PCI-X/PCI-Express/AGP/HyperTransport, which covers an amazing number
of the machines actually being used these days. Obviously it doesn't
apply to all, but as you say, it can be abstracted on over time.

-hpa

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