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SubjectRe: PCI domain stuff
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Followup to:  <1057034041.31826.1.camel@rth.ninka.net>
By author: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 21:05, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > We need to support mmaping device resources. I think this actually
> > merits being a first class sysfs concept -- turn a struct resource into
> > an mmapable file. The current fugly ioctl really has to go.
>
> What's so wrong with the "fugly ioctl"?
>
> What can't you do with it?
>
> You can even mmap the complete I/O space of a PCI bus (in order to poke
> around in implicit I/O resources like the VGA registers that a PCI card
> might respond to).
>

Presumably only on architectures which use memory-mapped IO address
space.

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