On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, matthew green wrote:

>    
>    Should be faster since they explicitly bypass the MMU and don't take TLB
>    miss traps.  However, the current scheme using gcc macros is not optimal
>    since gcc can't do as good a job at scheduling the instructions.  The best
>    solution would be to modify gcc so pointers could be explicitly assocated
>    with ASIs.
> 
> 
> you mean something like
> 
> 	void	*foo __attribute__((__ASIXXX___));
> 
> ?  telling the compiler to generate all instructions with foo with
> the appropriate ASI ?  hmm...  shouldn't be too hard to do ?

Yes.  Although how this could be hidden inside bus_space*() macros is
beyond me.

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