Re: mpt sets 64bit consistent mask yet requires mapping in same 4 GB chunk?!?

[Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:52:57AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:41, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
> > Regarding last weeks thread
> > on mpt fusion driver(2.6 kernel), and PrimeIocFifos:
> > 
> [snip... a third allocation dependency]
> 
> > If this fix is urgent, I recommend providing a quick 
> > fix which is creating 32bit pci_dev mask just for these 
> > three pci_alloc_consistent calls. 
> > 
> 
>    The current failure mode is pretty ugly and appears fairly random.  I
> would consider getting something that works reliably to be urgent.  It
> sounds easy and safe to twiddle the consistent device mask in the short
> term and combine these allocations in a future rev.  Thanks,
> 
> 	Alex


Unfortunately, the SGI platform needs 64 bit addresses for consistent
allocations.  However, since that's not reliable, I guess we'll just
need to wait for a fix that combines the allocations.

Eric, do you have any idea how long this will take?

thanks

jeremy