Re: [patch 2.5] VGA IO on systems with multiple PCI IO domains

From: Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 16:45:50 EST

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Hi!

> But on modern systems (titan and marvel), the firmware supports vga
> on *any* bus. Even worse, marvel doesn't have dedicated "legacy"
> hose at all.

> So we have to decode and fix IO port addresses inside our in/out
> functions, which is awful.

Is the problem really only with VGA? Shouldn't we introduce
isa_(in|out)(b|w) instead and remap the whole legacy I/O space?

Have a nice fortnight

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