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From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: PCI domain stuff
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:03:29PM -0700, 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.

There is some interest in the NetBSD project for such an API, as well.
<fair at netbsd.org> filed xsrc/21986 last week.
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=21986

Perhaps a common implementation could develop.

(OK, I can dream...)

-andy
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