From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@de.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow drivers to map individual 4k pages to userspace
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:07:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adamz1odbpr.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175657025.30879.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Benjamin Herrenschmidt's message of "Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:23:45 +1000")
> It's somewhat architected. I doubt there will ever be a processor that
> can have an eHCA and doesn't support that trick. The thing is, eHCA is
> platform specific, so the remap_4k_pfn would have to be called by driver
> specific code, but that's not a problem since that driver will only ever
> be used on those platforms that support that call.
If I'm going off on something irrelevant, just tell me. But is there
a chance that you would want to build a kernel that can boot on both a
platform that has eHCA, and also on some other platform that cannot
support remap_4k_pfn? If so does this approach cause problems?
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 4:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-03 11:24 [PATCH] Allow drivers to map individual 4k pages to userspace Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 2:34 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-04 3:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 4:07 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-04-04 4:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 5:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 4:41 ` Paul Mackerras
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