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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@cup.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: PCI DAC routines for SN
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:11:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905512@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905493@msgid-missing>

Jesse Barnes wrote:
> He was the one that implemented it I thought.  His assertion was that
> since most chipsets don't handle 64 bit coherent allocations well, the
> consistent interface should be forced to return a 32 bit address (is
> that right Dave?).

Right - HP recently changed ZX1 support based on the same assertion.
And for the drivers I'm aware of (eg tg3, sym53c8xx), Dave is right.

...
> otherwise I'd like to leave it up to the platform
> (i.e. ia64/sn could return a 64 bit address and sparc64 could do 32).

This is not feasible. The driver/device will use/support the same number
of address bits regardless of architecture. If the architecture provides
fewer bits than the driver/device supports, no problem obviously.

I'm curious to see what happens with the pci_dac_alloc_consistent() idea.

grant


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-23 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-22 22:34 [Linux-ia64] Re: PCI DAC routines for SN David Mosberger
2002-04-22 22:39 ` Jesse Barnes
2002-04-22 23:07 ` David Mosberger
2002-04-22 23:40 ` Jesse Barnes
2002-04-23  1:34 ` Grant Grundler
2002-04-23 21:11 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2002-04-24  4:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-24  5:49 ` Jesse Barnes
2002-04-24  5:50 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-24 16:13 ` Grant Grundler
2002-04-24 17:39 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-24 17:40 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-24 19:45 ` Jesse Barnes
2002-04-24 23:13 ` Jesse Barnes
2002-04-24 23:53 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-25  0:08 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-25  0:11 ` Jesse Barnes
2002-04-25  0:17 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-25  0:21 ` Jesse Barnes
2002-04-25  0:36 ` Jesse Barnes
2002-04-25  0:43 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-25  1:00 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-25  1:01 ` Jesse Barnes
2002-04-25  1:22 ` Jesse Barnes

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