From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 05:58:35 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Missing files in to-linus-2.5 BK tree; build problems Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 30 May 2002 15:49:57 +1000, Peter Chubb said: Peter> It seems to me that it *should* be possible to get all except Peter> category 2 synced into the mainline code. One of the things Peter> I've been trying to do occasionally is to compile a Peter> ia64-patched kernel on different architectures to see what Peter> breaks. Surprisingly little does. Yes, absolutely. I'm working on that, but it's slower than I'd like it to be. The DRM patches are next, but not being a DRM expert doesn't help. Of course, I always appreciate help (as long as I'm informed on who's submitting what). Peter> BTW, I upgraded the BIOS on lemon.gelato.unsw.edu.au, the Peter> machine that had the time haring off into the future. It Peter> seems OK now. Great! Peter> One of the BIOS notes said that the AGP aperture for the Peter> I460GX was fixed not to overlap the PCI space. Does this Peter> mean that some of the hacks in the DRM are no longer Peter> necessary? I don't think so. The "hacks" are not workarounds; they reflect the fact that on Itanium, CPU accesses to (AGP) memory do not go through AGP GART translation (somebody please correct me if I got the details wrong...). --david