Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:50:42 -0500 (EST) | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: kmalloc |
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Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
> Sure. I was talking about this as a right solution for 2.2. > In 2.3, we finally need to make kernel understand there can > be multiple buses, each of them using either a different > phys<->bus mapping or an IOMMU. I started working on a new set > of I/O functions, but for now I have to do some exams first.
NetBSD has bus_space() and bus_dma() man pages and a white paper. They claim to share drivers accross multiple busses with ease. Maybe this is something we ought to clone.
BTW, do we really have a dozen Lance Ethernet card drivers?
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