From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:18:09 +0000 Subject: Re: Altix I/O code reorganization - 7 of 21 Message-Id: <20040812101809.E5988@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <200408112329.i7BNTP6F163641@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200408112329.i7BNTP6F163641@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com>; from pfg@sgi.com on Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:29:25PM -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Pat Gefre Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:29:25PM -0500, Pat Gefre wrote: > Yes, the PCI DMA mapping code is very robust no. > and tries to export > the many hardware features that are available on our system. However, not > all of these features are "reachable" via the standard Linux PCI mapping > interfaces. We have removed all unreacheable features. However, we can > still support future requirements with these new interfaces when needed. > > Yes, we did look at your patch dated: December 4th 2003. It was very good, but I mean a more recent patch I sent to Colin.