From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
sct@redhat.com, roman@augan.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk,
nico@cam.org, davidm@hpl.hp.com
Subject: Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:26:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000907162615.D6580@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200008171941.MAA24042@pizda.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:41:52PM -0700
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:41:52PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> ISA is a dead hardware technology and therefore how it works is pretty
> much fixed in stone.
>
> Perhaps some older MIPS machines supporting ISA could benefit from
> an API similar to the PCI dma stuff, as Alan mentioned. But that is
> the only case which has any merit in my mind.
ISA isn't really a consideration for MIPS. All that ISA hardware
couldn't be supported by treating it the same as on a x86 system. That's
not top efficient but justified given the importance of ISA for MIPS
boxes - nearly NIL.
Ralf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-07 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-10 17:18 pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6 Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-11 2:24 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-14 0:34 ` Anton Blanchard
2000-08-11 11:50 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-11 13:20 ` Russell King
2000-08-11 14:56 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-12 9:18 ` Bjorn Wesen
2000-08-11 17:21 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-14 9:29 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-15 16:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-16 8:25 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-16 17:13 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-16 18:20 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-16 18:24 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-16 19:53 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-16 18:47 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-16 18:39 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-16 19:30 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-16 22:22 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 9:11 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-17 19:07 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 19:01 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-17 19:19 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:20 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-17 19:33 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:36 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-09-07 14:31 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-08-17 19:50 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 19:41 ` David S. Miller
2000-09-07 14:26 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2000-08-17 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:24 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:32 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 19:30 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-17 20:00 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-16 18:17 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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