Re: Legacy PCI IO for PCI graphics on SGI O2...Anybody?

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, sknauert@wesleyan.edu wrote:

> > Oh I thought ioperm() or iopl() on archs other then x86 are all dummy
> > routines, but apparently that was wrong.  Now I have looked some
> > ioperm.c in glibc and am very suprised by so many hard-coded
> > boardname/addresses ;)
> >
> 
> This seems like a mistake, shouldn't the hardware specific chunks be in
> the kernel?

 No particular need for this -- libc is a part of the operating system 
API.  Anything below this API is up to the system implementation and the 
more bits moved to the userland the better.

  Maciej