David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:11 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Ralf Ertzinger <fedora(a)camperquake.de> said:
>>> pciutils-2.2.4-2.fc7
>>> --------------------
>>> * Mon Apr 02 2007 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 2.2.4-2
>>> - added alpha to multilib patch (#231790)
>> Do we even build for Alpha? When was the last time anyone tried it?
> A better question would be why does Alpha (an arch that has only ever
> been 64 bit) need multilib?
If only there were someone, maybe at Red Hat, who has experience with
the Alpha platform.
From a pure Linux perspective, no; from Tru64-Unix perspective, yes;
I did Alpha platform support for approx. 7 years before leaving the mothership.
From EV4->EV6-NUMA. Know a fair amount EV7, but left before doing
that work.
pciutils requires the use of syscalls to do pci config cycle accesses because
Alpha systems memory-map the PCI config space into it's uber memory address space;
i.e., Alpha *always* did pci-mmconf; it never used io-mapped, address+ data regs
to do PCI config cycles.
Which reminds me, since Alpha doesn't have equiv. iob/w/l instructions, the PCI
IOPort accesses were memory-mapped as well.
Similar stuff/issues with PCI on PPC.
- Don