From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: consistent_dma_mask is a ghost?
Date: 13 Aug 2003 12:23:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060773827.8008.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308130011.h7D0BME29033@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
On Mer, 2003-08-13 at 01:11, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Platforms which worked correctly before continue to work
> correctly thereafter. IMHO, the whole thing is a kludge,
> designed to support AIC7xxx on SGI SN-2, and that's about
> all it does. There's a device which uses fewer DMA bits
> when it accesses its mailbox than when it accesses data.
Same is true for megaraid, aacraid and several other cards, but they
just keep changing the pci mask at runtime. Thats in some ways even
uglier but works for now
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-13 11:24 UTC|newest]
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2003-08-13 0:11 ` consistent_dma_mask is a ghost? Pete Zaitcev
2003-08-13 11:23 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-08-13 14:51 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-11 23:07 Krzysztof Halasa
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