Re: SCSI QLA not working on latest *-mm SN2

Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-09-21T23:04:10Z

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> On Monday, September 20, 2004 4:27 pm, Grant Grundler wrote:
>> I understand "write posting" as when the CPU posts the write
>> to the chipset and the chipset says the write is done even though
>> it hasn't reached the PCI device. It just means the write has reached
>> the PCI "domain" (which is supposed to be strongly ordered).
>
> That's my understanding too.

It might be OT for this specific discussion - but ("for completeness") - I
think, there are PCI host-controllers that implement _only_ PCI-to-host
post-write and read FIFOs (buffers)... Example - IT8152.

Regards
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski