On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Tim Coleman wrote:
This is fine and dandy in ix86 world, but the driver covers all platforms,
not just intel centric universes........
This prevents wild grabbing on huge IO spaces in other archs, like PPC and
M68K.
> > # cat /proc/ioports
> > [...]
> > 01f0-01f0 : ide0
> > 01f1-01f1 : ide0
> > 01f2-01f2 : ide0
> > 01f3-01f3 : ide0
> > 01f4-01f4 : ide0
> > 01f5-01f5 : ide0
> > 01f6-01f6 : ide0
> > 01f7-01f7 : ide0
> > [...]
> > 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> > [...]
> >
> > Notice the many ide0 entries for eight consecutive port addresses. With
> > 2.3.46 it looks like this:
> >
> > # cat /proc/ioports
> > [...]
> > 01f0-01f7 : ide0
> > [...]
> > 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> > [...]
> >
> > Notice that ide0 only takes two entries here.
>
> Note, however that they take up the same ranges.
>
> Tim
>
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