PCI caching question related to mvme5500

Peter Dufault dufault at hda.com
Tue Nov 1 16:16:37 UTC 2005


On Nov 1, 2005, at 10:51 AM, gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov wrote:

> It would kind of suck if you put a hardwired exception for your gizmo
> into the source tree as a patch.  If it is desirable to feed back
> hardware-specific hacks like this, then I think it would be preferable
> to implement some kind of hack table in pci.c so that sort of thing
> could be generalized without making a mess.
>
I assume no one would check such a hack in.  I mapped the entire PCI  
bus in on another BAT cacheable and calculated the offset to get at it.

I'll look at what you suggested above and try to find a good hack.

Peter




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