[Linux-ia64] Re: 64 Bits DMA Addresses for Alloc Consistent Interfaces.

David Mosberger
2003-05-15T15:48:07Z

>>>>> On 15 May 2003 10:12:48 -0500, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> said:

James> 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).

James> This is still being hashed out. It looks like adding a the
James> _mask variants may still be a viable runner for 2.6.

That would be good.

--david