Re: With Daniel Phillips Patch

Matthew Jacob
2001-08-23T01:04:40Z

What guys writing SBus drivers? I mean, other than the NetBSD folks?

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> > From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
> > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 18:01:40 -0600
> >
> > It is opaque and should be able to represent all dma (or I would prefer
> > bus) addresses in the system. The examples I've seen where people
> > assume it to be 32bits in size are, well, broken.
> >
> >It is the type to be used for 32-bit SAC based DMA.
> >DMA-mapping.txt is pretty clear about this.
>
> Then it is poorly named. How about "pci_dma32_t". Or better yet,
> uint32_t. How do the guys writing SBUS drivers like the fact that
> all of this mapping stuff is so PCI centric?
>
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> Justin
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