Re: [ppopov@mvista.com: Re: [Linux-mips-kernel]ioremap & ISA]

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:10:20AM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:

> It seems like i82365.c implies a PCI device.  If this is true, then things do
> make sense here.
> 
> Just setting iomem_resource.end to 0xffffffff should get you by resource range
> problem.

Certainly not as that is the default.

> It has nothing to isa_slot_offset here.  I don't know about the history of
> isa_slot_offset, but it appears to be faint effort to allow the access to what
> is called "ISA memory" space on PC.  This region, if it ever exists, should
> never be a separate region on a MIPS machine.  It should just be the beginning
> part of PCI Memory space.
> 
> Ralf, we should just delete isa_slot_offset to avoid any further confusions.

No way as long as there are (E)ISA systems :-(

  Ralf