RE: memcpy_fromio in dmi_scan.c

[Luck, Tony]

> I don't have much knowledge about IA64 either. All I see is that while
> x86 implements memcpy_fromio() with memcpy [1], ia64 implements it with
> readb [2]. There must be a reason for that, and I can only suppose that
> memcpy on __iomem pointers doesn't work on IA64. If memcpy doesn't work
> then I can't see memcmp working.

On most platforms readb() just ends up doing a regular dereference of the
address ... so I'd expect that memcmp would work just fine.  The exception
is the old SGI sn2 which end up calling ___sn_readb() ... which does something
weird with sn_dma_flush() after doing the dereference of *addr.  I don't
really understand what is going on here - but I assume that it is for real
PCI iomapped memory, as opposed to random bits of BIOS reserved memory
that we used ioremap() to get a virtual handle on.

Not sure how to test ... what would I run to exercise this code?

-Tony
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