From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Horms Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:46:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] Physical mode SAL calls Message-Id: <20061024004650.GA25701@verge.net.au> List-Id: References: <20061023084840.730815639@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org> In-Reply-To: <20061023084840.730815639@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.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 H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/