From: Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@inwestnet.de>
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@cup.hp.com>
Cc: willy@thepuffingroup.com, huck@cup.hp.com,
parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] lasi scsi driver
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 19:34:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000305193443.A8727@abacus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200003050549.VAA03562@milano.cup.hp.com>; from grundler@cup.hp.com on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:49:49PM -0800
> In personal conversations, two knowledgable folks have suggested
> the following:
> o PA-7100LC systems support uncacheable memory and subcacheline access.
> So these boxes should be supportable.
>
> o PA-7300LC systems *might* support uncacheable memory and subcacheline...
> (Could anyone definitively answer this for any PA-7300LC box?)
It does, according to our documentation.
> o PA-7000 systems are pretty much SOL.
> (But they could be perfectly useful if folks add cache flushing to
> the few device drivers needed for graphics and stuff off of LASI.)
More importantly, they don't use PCI (and not even GSC). It's perfectly
fine for us to require HP-PB drivers aso to do cache flushing.
> In summary, the number of "unsupportable" systems isn't as big
> as I first thought.
I'm still not convinced there's going to be any problem at all, even on
runway systems.
Philipp Rumpf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-05 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-02 20:42 [parisc-linux] lasi scsi driver Gyula Matics
2000-03-02 21:19 ` Grant Grundler
2000-03-02 21:44 ` Gyula Matics
2000-03-03 0:50 ` [parisc-linux] Lasi Ethernet - update Helge Deller
2000-03-03 2:55 ` Bdale Garbee
2000-03-03 13:14 ` [parisc-linux] Lasi Ethernet - update (fixed!) Helge Deller
2000-03-03 1:34 ` [parisc-linux] lasi scsi driver Helge Deller
2000-03-03 15:52 ` willy
2000-03-03 19:10 ` Jerry Huck
2000-03-04 19:49 ` willy
2000-03-05 5:49 ` Grant Grundler
2000-03-05 14:29 ` [parisc-linux] uncacheable memory willy
2000-03-05 15:57 ` [parisc-linux] uncacheable memory (D370) rob hoppe
2000-03-05 16:05 ` willy
2000-03-06 6:26 ` uncacheable memory Grant Grundler
2000-03-05 18:34 ` Philipp Rumpf [this message]
2000-03-05 18:46 ` [parisc-linux] lasi scsi driver Philipp Rumpf
2000-03-05 21:05 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2000-03-07 19:33 ` Jerry Huck
2000-03-07 23:45 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-03-08 0:33 ` Grant Grundler
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