On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Al Viro wrote:
>
> switch from isa_read...() to ioremap() and read...()
Hmm.. I actually believe that the isa_read() functions are more portable
and easier to use than ioremap().
The reason? A platform will always know where any legacy ISA bus resides,
while the "ioremap()" thing will depend on platform PCI code to have set
the right offsets (and thus the resource addresses) for whatever bus the
PCI device is on.
So doing a "ioremap(0xf0000)" is actually a harder operation at run-time
when you have to basically have some special case ("is this address range
in the ISA legacy region") than for the platform code to just always map
the ISA legacy region at some random offset and then doing "isa_read()"
from that.
Is there some underlying reason you want to remove the isa_xxx stuff?
Linus
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