Re: Reverting old hack

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:59:56AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> > There is another somewhat theoretical correctness issue.  Because the
> > VIA SuperIO chip only decodes 24 bits of address space but port address
> > space currently being configured as 32MB there is the theoretical
> > possibility of I/O port addresses that alias with legacy addresses getting
> > allocated.
> 
> Does this mean my comment:
> 
> +        * but the VT82C586 IDE controller does respond at 0x100001f0 because
> +        * it only decodes the low 16 bits of the address.
> 
> should say "24 bits" instead of "16 bits"?

Yes, afair.

  Ralf