Re: memcpy_fromio in dmi_scan.c

From: Zhenzhong Duan
Date: Wed Apr 24 2013 - 21:52:22 EST



On 2013-04-25 03:22, Jean Delvare wrote:
What is strange is that the call to memcpy_fromio was added a long time ago, long before dmi_scan was enabled on ia64.
I think memcpy_fromio is used to copy bios data to a mem buffer to speed up read access.

zduan

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