From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:12:48 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: 64 Bits DMA Addresses for Alloc Consistent Interfaces. 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, 2003-05-15 at 10:06, David Mosberger wrote: > James and I have been discussing this very point for the last week or > so. My preferred solution is to add an explicit dma-mask argument to > coherent/non-coherent allocators, but James prefers to do this via a > new GFP flag (GFP_DMA32 or some such). This is still being hashed out. It looks like adding a the _mask variants may still be a viable runner for 2.6. If it turns out not to be, the GFP_DMA32 will almost definitely be there. James