[LinuxBIOS] superiotool - dump support for fdc37b72x

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Sun Oct 7 00:05:05 CEST 2007


On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:50:52PM -0400, Robinson Tryon wrote:
> Comparing the specs for the FDC37B78x and the FDC37B72x you can see
> that there's a whole lot of duplication in the dump table.  At first
> glance, the global config (apart from the chip ID), the floppy,
> parallel port, and serial ports have exactly the same register layout
> for both chip families.
> 
> Is there some way that we can factor out these common data?

No, I don't think that's practicable.

While refactoring code is a good thing in general, this is just a bunch
of numbers and I don't see a way to sensibly factor this out.


Uwe.
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