From: Tim Wright <timw@splhi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
Venkatesh Ramamurthy <Venkateshr@ami.com>,
"'Pavel Machek'" <pavel@suse.cz>,
adefacc@tin.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, timw@splhi.com
Subject: Re: Confirmation request about new 2.4.x. kernel limits
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:50:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010109085001.B2971@scutter.internal.splhi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355693A51C0D211B55A00105ACCFE64E95137@ATL_MS1> <20010109142156.L25659@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20010109082749.A2971@scutter.internal.splhi.com> <20010109174446.A5602@gruyere.muc.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010109174446.A5602@gruyere.muc.suse.de>; from ak@suse.de on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:44:46PM +0100
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:44:46PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0800, Tim Wright wrote:
> > you are correct in saying that ia32 systems don't have IOMMU hardware, but
> > it's unfortunate that we don't support 64-bit PCI bus master cards, since
> > they're inexpensive and fairly common now. For instance, the Qlogic ISP SCSI
> > cards can do 64-bit addressing, as can many others. Has anybody taken a look
> > at enabling this ?
>
> Problem is that it needs a driver interface change and cooperation from the
> drivers.
>
> -Andi
I thought as much. Sounds like 2.5 material really, although it might be
interesting to see if I can make a patch to play with.
Regards,
Tim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-09 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-09 4:11 Confirmation request about new 2.4.x. kernel limits Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-09 12:21 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-09 16:27 ` Tim Wright
2001-01-09 16:44 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-09 16:50 ` Tim Wright [this message]
2001-01-10 13:16 ` Kurt Garloff
2001-01-09 14:05 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-09 18:00 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-09 17:35 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-09 17:47 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-09 15:15 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-09 15:51 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-04 11:50 A.D.F.
2001-01-04 11:23 ` Tigran Aivazian
2001-01-04 11:50 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-05 22:46 ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-09 14:03 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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