[patch] alpha pciconfig_iobase syscall and ioperm rewrite

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Mon Mar 20 12:44:00 GMT 2000


>>>>> Richard Henderson writes:

 > I'm adding a new syscall to help the X server get at bus
 > memories on different pci busses.  As a nice side effect,
 > it means that we don't have to keep adding new entries
 > to the tables in ioperm.c, since we can now query the kernel.

 > I added pciconfig_iobase to GLIBC_2.1.3 because I plan on
 > backporting the patch.

In that case, please use GLIBC_2.1.4 - and make also the changes need
to allow this to be used.  We should use correct version numbers.

Andreas
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