>
> jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz said:
> > Take care, they are wrong. long is 64bit on sparc64, don't be
> > confused by read long when it is in fact a 32bit read.
>
> Then readl and writel are the wrong names for the routines.
In my opinion, people have had problems to disconnect from inb, inw and
inl names commonly used in the past. ;)
> We ought to rename them while we're at it.
Indeed write8, write16, write32 (write64), read8, etc... will be far
better names and can be added immediately, with the old confusing stuff
defined for compatibility.
(Note that I would prefer names like mmio_write32()).
Gérard.
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