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From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: Leandro Fanzone <leandro@hasar.com>
Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] HAL_*_STRING
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1118846730.13965.122.camel@hermes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42B03AFD.8040106@hasar.com>

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:28 -0300, Leandro Fanzone wrote:
> Hello,
>          I'm using ecos 2.0 under x86, and tried to use the HAL_*_STRING 
> macros, both for reading and writing. They don't work properly; the 
> assembly output shows that they lack the rep instruction preceding the 
> insb/outsb instructions. So the macros would be:
> 
> #define HAL_READ_UINT8_STRING( _register_, _buf_, _count_)      \
> CYG_MACRO_START                                                 \
>     asm volatile ( "rep insb"                                       \
>                    :                                            \
>                    : "c" (_count_), "d"(_register_), "D"(_buf_) \
>         );                                                      \
> CYG_MACRO_END
> 
> #define HAL_WRITE_UINT8_STRING( _register_, _buf_, _count_)     \
> CYG_MACRO_START                                                 \
>     asm volatile ( "rep outsb"                                      \
>                    :                                            \
>                    : "c" (_count_), "d"(_register_), "S"(_buf_) \
>         );                                                      \
> CYG_MACRO_END
> 
> The same thing for the 16 bit and 32 bit versions.
> Regards,

These macros are only defined as a matter of reference (and then only
by a few HALs since they are not used by the kernel).  In any case,
it makes sense to correct them.

Could you send a proper patch for this to ecos-patches@sourceware.org,
please?  Include the changes for all versions (8/16/32).

Thanks

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