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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:13:46 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: PCI domain stuff
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David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
>    Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:06:52 -0700
> 
>    Perhaps a libdirectio would be useful?
>    
> The details are very PCI specific, so what you'd be working
> on initially is a PCI centric library.
> 
> Over time things can be abstracted, but the initial PCI specific
> one would be good enough for xfree86 to link to and make use
> of which is a huge step in the right direction.
 >

Well, "PCI" in this case presumably means 
PCI/PCI-X/PCI-Express/AGP/HyperTransport, which covers an amazing number 
of the machines actually being used these days.  Obviously it doesn't 
apply to all, but as you say, it can be abstracted on over time.

	-hpa

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