Re: [PATCH 0/1] m68k: Handle HAS_IOPORT dependencies

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 1:26 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, at 12:16, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 8:35 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Michael is worried about non-ISA drivers using inb() and friends.
> > At some point in time (i.e. eons ago), we were told it was better to
> > use in[bwl]()/read[bwl]() instead of directly dereferencing volatile
> > pointers...
>
> It's definitely still better to use an abstraction layer for MMIO
> accesses using inline asm instructions than open-coding the
> volatile pointer dereferences. Over time we have gotten better
> at defining which of the available abstractions should be used
> for a given bus, so inb()/outb() is now only really used for
> things derived from ISA in some form, including e.g. PCI and LPC.

Indeed. Nowadays the consensus is that readl() and friends should
always perform little-endian accesses, thus implying byte-swapping on
big-endian platforms, but most of the m68k drivers were written long
before that enlightenment...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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