Re: [PATCH v13 1/9] LIB: Introduce a generic PIO mapping method

From: John Garry
Date: Wed Feb 14 2018 - 11:15:09 EST


On 13/02/2018 23:05, dann frazier wrote:
bool
>
> +config INDIRECT_PIO
> + bool "Access I/O in non-MMIO mode"
> + depends on ARM64
> + help
> + On some platforms where no separate I/O space exists, there are I/O
> + hosts which can not be accessed in MMIO mode. Using the logical PIO
> + mechanism, the host-local I/O resource can be mapped into system
> + logic PIO space shared with MMIO hosts, such as PCI/PCIE, then the
> + system can access the I/O devices with the mapped logic PIO through
> + I/O accessors.
> + This way has a relatively little I/O performance cost. Please make
grammar nit - s/a relatively/relatively/


Fine, thanks

John

-dann

> + sure your devices really need this configure item enabled.
> +