From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: SN specific version of dma_get_required_mask()
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:39:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081117173930.35342b31@hale.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081117162454.169426.74531.sendpatchset@attica.americas.sgi.com>
* John Keller [2008-11-17 10:24]:
>
> Create a platform specific version of dma_get_required_mask()
> for ia64 SN Altix. All SN Altix platforms support 64 bit DMA
> addressing regardless of the size of system memory.
> Create a ia64 machvec for dma_get_required_mask, with the
> SN version unconditionally returning DMA_64BIT_MASK.
Maybe we should then switch the ia64_platform_is("sn2")
in check_crashkernel_memory() to dma_get_required_mask() =
DMA_64BIT_MASK because that's basically what the check is about.
BTW: What about UV?
Regards,
Bernhard
--
Bernhard Walle, SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Architecture Development
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-17 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-17 16:24 [PATCH] ia64: SN specific version of dma_get_required_mask() John Keller
2008-11-17 16:39 ` Bernhard Walle [this message]
2008-11-18 14:08 ` John Keller
2008-11-18 15:35 ` Luck, Tony
2008-11-23 13:37 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-11-18 15:53 ` John Keller
2008-11-19 4:07 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-19 16:12 ` John Keller
2008-11-20 4:49 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-20 22:57 ` John Keller
2008-11-21 5:11 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-11-25 20:50 ` John Keller
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