Re: [LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for fdc37b72x

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 05:05:57PM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote:
> On 10/7/07, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:05:05AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > > > Is there some way that we can factor out these common data?
> > >
> > > No, I don't think that's practicable.
> >
> > Depends on how much values would be duplicate I think.
>
> For the smsc superios I've just been working on
> the keyboard and COM1 registers are practically all the same
> I think that Parallel Port was all the same, too
> COM2 is almost always the same (the first register is sometimes
>
> 0x00, sometimes NANA... so practically we might actually consider
> these the same).

Nope, I really wouldn't do that. Don't bother with factoring out here,
way too much hassle and #ifdef-hell for no real gain.

Uwe.