Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13]  [RFC] ipath basic headers
From: Robert Walsh <rjwalsh@pathscale.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>,
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> and opterons can already run 2 architectures. And the HT bus is a
> generic bus.. with public specs. Others than just AMD use it as well.
> 
> also.. what is wrong with memcpy and co ?

Our chips can only handle double-word writes.  memcpy isn't guaranteed
to do this.

> then you need to use readl() and family most like; they already take
> care of this anyway.

Oh, OK then.

Regards,
 Robert.

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