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Re: pci_* interface

To: Leo Dagum <dagum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: pci_* interface
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:13:57 +0100
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References: <20000131193615.I12102@uni-koblenz.de> <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> <10001311048.ZM13252@barrel.engr.sgi.com>
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 10:48:34AM -0800, Leo Dagum wrote:

> On Jan 31,  7:36pm, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > Subject: pci_* interface
> > Seems others also aren't really hapy with the interface.  On Friday
> > Kanoj and me agreed that we first want to discuss on this list what
> > kind of interfaces we actually want for the Origin but I guess we're
> > somewhat under pressure now to try to fix the interfaces.
> >
> > Can anybody point me to documentation of the interfaces which IRIX uses
> > for this purpose?
> >
> >   Ralf
> >-- End of excerpt from Ralf Baechle
> 
> Below is a rather old but still accurate document on bus layering
> in Irix which describes the api for pio's, dma's and interrupts.
> Section 7.1.2 describes dma's from crosstalk, the pci interfaces
> are identical.

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