Re: memcpy_toio on i386 using byte writes even when n%2==0

From: Chris Lesiak
Date: Tue May 30 2006 - 09:54:33 EST


On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:46 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> It does seem a little bit less efficient, but I don't know think it's
> necessarily a bug. There's no guarantee of what size writes will be used
> with the memcpy_to/fromio functions.

I shouldn't have made that assumption in the first place, but I suspect
that I am not the only one to have done so. Probably other hardware
also gets caught not supporting byte enables.
--
Chris Lesiak
chris.lesiak@xxxxxxxxx

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