* Julius Werner jwerner@chromium.org [150218 00:12]:
I'd like to propose an API change/cleanup for a long-standing problem with architecture-independent code that people have hit and privately discussed/cursed multiple times already, but no one really had time to make the big change/fix yet. (Some earlier discussion among Chromium people about this is available at http://crbug.com/451388 )
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I think nobody disagrees that type checking is a bad idea here. It was a mistake to let type checking free versions of these accessors slip into the tree into the first place.
The second part is a little bit more prone to personal preferences. - Using 8 / 16 / 32 / 64 for data size is more explicit that b / w / l / q - (addr, val) is more aligned with other APIs in coreboot - Using the Linux API as a standard will make it easier for people to switch between code bases, and thus is a lot less error prone - Using the Linux API makes it easier to share code with other projects. such as u-boot, Linux, libpayload based projects
Since there is no clear winner, I would like to ask you to participate in a poll to measure what people would prefer:
http://doodle.com/3dwbudycrypg9xyf
Stefan
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Stefan Reinauer