Thread (32 messages) 32 messages, 5 authors, 2018-02-16

Re: [PATCH v13 1/9] LIB: Introduce a generic PIO mapping method

From: John Garry <hidden>
Date: 2018-02-14 16:15:06
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On 13/02/2018 23:05, dann frazier wrote:
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 	bool
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+config INDIRECT_PIO
+	bool "Access I/O in non-MMIO mode"
+	depends on ARM64
+	help
+	  On some platforms where no separate I/O space exists, there are I/O
+	  hosts which can not be accessed in MMIO mode. Using the logical PIO
+	  mechanism, the host-local I/O resource can be mapped into system
+	  logic PIO space shared with MMIO hosts, such as PCI/PCIE, then the
+	  system can access the I/O devices with the mapped logic PIO through
+	  I/O accessors.
+	  This way has a relatively little I/O performance cost. Please make
grammar nit - s/a relatively/relatively/
Fine, thanks

John
  -dann
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+	  sure your devices really need this configure item enabled.
+
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