libpciaccess x86 backend

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Jan 19 13:38:12 PST 2010


Corbin Simpson, le Tue 19 Jan 2010 13:26:47 -0800, a écrit :
> It doesn't seem that exotic to want a PCI layer, and wasn't the entire
> point of libpciaccess to keep PCI code out of the Xserver?

I'm afraid I'm not sure which point you want to make.

An exotic kernel would precisely _not_ want to have to fiddle with PCI
intrinsics.  Also, putting x86 code into libpciaccess in the case there
is not PCI layer still keeps the PCI code out of Xserver itself, in a
way.

Samuel



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