From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Allen Martin <AMartin@nvidia.com>, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
Michael Monnerie <m.monnerie@zmi.at>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space on x86-64 (Athlon64x2), with solution
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:32:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603032332.43178.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4408C1E1.7090006@pobox.com>
On Friday 03 March 2006 23:23, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Friday 03 March 2006 22:27, Allen Martin wrote:
> >>nForce4 has 64 bit (40 bit AMD64) DMA in the SATA controller. We gave
> >>the docs to Jeff Garzik under NDA. He posted some non functional driver
> >>code to linux-ide earlier this week that has the 64 bit registers and
> >>structures although it doesn't make use of them. Someone could pick
> >>this up if they wanted to work on it though.
> >
> > Thanks for the correction. Sounds nice - hopefully we'll get a driver
> > soon. I guess it's in good hands with Jeff for now.
>
> I'll happen but not soon. Motivation is low at NV and here as well,
> since newer NV is AHCI. The code in question, "NV ADMA", is essentially
> legacy at this point
NForce4s are used widely in new shipping systems so I wouldn't
exactly call them legacy.
> -- though I certainly acknowledge the large current
> installed base. Just being honest about the current state of things...
How much work would it be to finish the prototype driver you have?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-03 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-03 21:27 PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space on x86-64 (Athlon64x2), with solution Allen Martin
2006-03-03 22:12 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-03 22:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-03 22:32 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-03-04 6:34 ` Michael Monnerie
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[not found] ` <5MqNc-2Y5-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <5MqX4-39H-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <5MyAS-5zh-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-03-07 0:15 ` Robert Hancock
2006-04-02 7:51 ` Joerg Bashir
2006-04-02 8:00 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-04-02 8:24 ` Joerg Bashir
2006-04-02 11:16 ` Andi Kleen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-01 23:23 Michael Monnerie
2006-03-02 1:03 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 9:59 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-03 8:16 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-03-03 11:00 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <200603021316.38077.ak@suse.de>
[not found] ` <4406E226.4050806@pobox.com>
2006-03-02 12:26 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 12:31 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-02 12:33 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <20060302123033.GL4329@suse.de>
2006-03-02 13:09 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 13:10 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-02 13:33 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 13:33 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-02 13:46 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 13:49 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-02 13:58 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 14:14 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-02 14:35 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-02 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
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