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FWIW, NetBSD has a couple of nice man pages on their bus stuff.  See
bus_space(9) and bus_dma(9).  It looks like a well abstracted interface,
and works on several architectures.  We really should be looking at ways
to make the BSD's more similar whenever possible.  Making the drivers
more portable would especially be nice.. so I think that this issue
definately deserves more thought.

Chris