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Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 21:52:15 -0200
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Vivien Chappelier <vivien.chappelier@enst-bretagne.fr>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: aic7xxx (O2 scsi) DMA coherency
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201032247490.9064-100000@melkor>; from vivien.chappelier@enst-bretagne.fr on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:51:51PM +0100
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:51:51PM +0100, Vivien Chappelier wrote:

> > > 	This tells the aic7xxx to use DMA safe memory for I/O.
> > 
> > That seems totally inappropriate. The unchecked dma option is for
> > ancient ISA DMA controllers that didnt do the 16Mb check. If you
> > find you need it debug your pci remapper
> 
> This is used when scaning for devices (drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c) . When
> this flag is not set, the code uses memory from the stack (unsigned char
> scsi_result0[256]; in scan_scsis) instead of kmallocating it DMA safe as
> it should on non-coherent systems. Maybe this is the thing to change?

Indeed, it is.  I thought this one died ages ago.

  Ralf