From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_sil: Greatly improve DMA support
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 11:01:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <464F2D83.6000506@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.SqfRJHzGgf3m6sdJPwJTwHDPSuw@ifi.uio.no>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Since Alan expressed a desire to see Large Block Transfer (LBT) support
> in pata_sil680, I though I would re-post my patch for adding LBT support
> to sata_sil.
>
> Silicon Image's Large Block Transfer (LBT) support is a vendor-specific
> DMA scatter/gather engine, which enables 64-bit DMA addresses (where
> supported by platform) and eliminates the annoying 64k DMA boundary
> found in legacy PCI IDE BMDMA engines.
Looks like it doesn't allow 64-bit DMA addresses, it only gets rid of
the 64K boundary limitation.
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next parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-19 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.SqfRJHzGgf3m6sdJPwJTwHDPSuw@ifi.uio.no>
2007-05-19 17:01 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-05-19 21:27 ` [PATCH] sata_sil: Greatly improve DMA support Jeff Garzik
2007-05-19 21:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-19 5:35 Jeff Garzik
2007-05-19 16:20 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-05-19 22:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-19 23:22 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-05-20 10:19 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-20 13:38 ` Indan Zupancic
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