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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:26:57 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Bill Maniatty <maniattb@cs.rpi.edu>, FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, maniatty@cs.albany.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel 
Message-ID:  <200001241826.LAA04800@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:16:40 %2B0100." <20000124161640.F691@daemon.ninth-circle.org> 
References:  <20000124161640.F691@daemon.ninth-circle.org>  <200001231648.LAA53658@cs.rpi.edu> <388C0FED.706330D0@newsguy.com> 

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In message <20000124161640.F691@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes:
: >As long as a device is just inb/outb (I seem to recall newbus have a
: >replacement for these)
: 
: bus_space_read_#() / bus_space_write_#()
: 
: Where # is 1, 2, 4, or 8.  But I don't think we support atomic 8 byte
: atomic reads and writes.

It isn't so much that "we" don't support atomic 8 byte operations, it
is that the busses and cpus don't support these operations...

Warner


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