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From: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] Physical mode SAL calls
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:46:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061024004650.GA25701@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061023084840.730815639@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org>

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:15:58AM -0500, Jack Steiner wrote:
> SN systems support additional vendor-specific SAL calls. Some
> of these pass kernel addresses to SAL for input or output buffers.
> At a minimum, these buffer addresses need to be converted to 
> physical addresses if SAL is run in physical mode.
> 
> In addition, I think there may be additional problems with our SAL
> if we try to run only in physical mode. I'll take a look.....

Thanks. These patches do seem to work fairly well on my Tiger 2.
But its obviously a fairly tricky area.

-- 
Horms
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-24  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-23  8:48 [patch 0/5] Physical mode SAL calls Horms
2006-10-23 15:15 ` Jack Steiner
2006-10-24  0:46 ` Horms [this message]
2006-12-13  2:05 ` Horms

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