From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:40:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from elvis.franken.de ([193.175.24.41]:13953 "EHLO elvis.franken.de") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20026288AbXK0XkQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:40:16 +0000 Received: from uucp (helo=solo.franken.de) by elvis.franken.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1Ix9zG-0002cJ-00; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:37:06 +0100 Received: by solo.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 50CD7C2B31; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:36:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:36:57 +0100 To: peter fuerst Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] SGIWD93: use cached memory access to make driver work on IP28 Message-ID: <20071127233657.GA32469@alpha.franken.de> References: <20071126223921.A566CC2B26@solo.franken.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 17621 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 12:00:39AM +0100, peter fuerst wrote: > unlike with sgiseeq.c, in sgiwd93.c there's no need to bloat the hpc_chunk > and only a single dma_cache_sync-call is necessary in fill_hpc_entries and > init_hpc_chain respectively. funny I realized that a couple of minutes ago. A kernel with this changes booted ok. I'll post an updated driver tomorrow. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]