From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:50:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:50:28 -0500 Received: from monza.monza.org ([209.102.105.34]:1294 "EHLO monza.monza.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:50:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:50:01 -0800 From: Tim Wright To: Andi Kleen Cc: Matti Aarnio , Venkatesh Ramamurthy , "'Pavel Machek'" , adefacc@tin.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, timw@splhi.com Subject: Re: Confirmation request about new 2.4.x. kernel limits Message-ID: <20010109085001.B2971@scutter.internal.splhi.com> Reply-To: timw@splhi.com Mail-Followup-To: Andi Kleen , Matti Aarnio , Venkatesh Ramamurthy , 'Pavel Machek' , adefacc@tin.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, timw@splhi.com In-Reply-To: <1355693A51C0D211B55A00105ACCFE64E95137@ATL_MS1> <20010109142156.L25659@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20010109082749.A2971@scutter.internal.splhi.com> <20010109174446.A5602@gruyere.muc.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010109174446.A5602@gruyere.muc.suse.de>; from ak@suse.de on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:44:46PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Tim Wright - timw@splhi.com or timw@aracnet.com or twright@us.ibm.com IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon "Nobody ever said I was charming, they said "Rimmer, you're a git!"" RD VI - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/