From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Dan Aizenstros <dan@vcubed.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Multiple copies of pci-dma.c file.
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:56:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001122165653.A6421@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A1BD888.7FB3C6A6@vcubed.com>; from dan@vcubed.com on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:30:32AM -0500
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:30:32AM -0500, Dan Aizenstros wrote:
> Is there any reason for having multiple copies of
> the pci-dma.c file in Linux/MIPS. The are all
> doing basically the same thing. We could have
> just one copy in the arch/mips/lib directory
> and have the Makefile build it if CONFIG_PCI
> is defined.
Sounds like a plan, done. Tell me if it breaks something ...
Some chipsets have a builtin scatter / gather facility, those may need
special variants of pci-dma.c for better support.
> Also they appear to have an error in that they
> convert the pointer that is returned from the
> __get_free_pages function call into a KSEG1
> address even if the pointer is NULL.
Fixed.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-22 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-22 14:30 Multiple copies of pci-dma.c file Dan Aizenstros
2000-11-22 15:56 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2000-11-23 22:04 ` Dan Aizenstros
2000-11-24 1:35 ` Ralf Baechle
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