> I have two questions about asm-i386/io.h:
> 1. Why #define __ISA_IO_base ((char *)(PAGE_OFFSET)) ?
> 2. Why not #define __ISA_IO_base ((char *)0) ?
For ix86 the ISA IO space start is at the very begining of memory. On
other platforms like the PPC the ISA IO space is seperate from the
regular memory space. It starts after the regular memory space thus the
__ISA_IO_base will not be 0x0.
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