Chris Lesiak wrote:
I'm working on a driver for a custom PCI card on the i386 architecture.
The card uses a PLX9030 pci bridge to link an FPGA to the PCI bus using
a 16 bit bus. I found that something broke when moving from 2.6.10 to
2.6.17-rc4. In the driver, I use memcpy_toio to write 14 bytes to a
memory region in the FPGA.
To copy the 14 bytes, 2.6.10 does three 32 bit writes followed by one 16
bit write. 2.6.10 does three 32 bit writes followed by two 8 bit write.
The PLX9030 breaks the 32 bit writes into 16 bit writes for its local
bus just fine. The problem is that my board doesn't handle byte
enables. It was assumed that if all memory transfers were a multiple of
2 bytes, then byte accesses wouldn't be used. This is no longer true in
2.6.7-rc4.
I've solved the problem by padding to 16 bytes, but should this be
considered a bug in the kernel?
It does seem a little bit less efficient, but I don't know think it's
necessarily a bug. There's no guarantee of what size writes will be used
with the memcpy_to/fromio functions.
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