[Xorg] The big multiconsole nasty

[Egbert Eich]

Alan Cox writes:
 > On Gwe, 2004-07-02 at 18:04, Egbert Eich wrote:
 > > Do you refer to config port access directly thru the 'well known' 'config
 > > mechanism 1' (ie PIO 0xcf8 0xcfc registers), or do you mean access to
 > > PCI config space from user space altogether - even when using the kernel
 > > functions?
 > 
 > Using conf1. Accessing via the kernel provided functions is fine
 > 

OK, sounds good.
We can change the default by changing one or two lines in the code.
The reason that we is conf1 instead of the kernel interface is that
I thought the latencies may be somewhat lower when using it for RAC.

On some platforms (like AXP) we always had to go thru the kernel.


Egbert.