From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268475AbUHLJSR (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:18:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268477AbUHLJSQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:18:16 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:17935 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268475AbUHLJSK (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:18:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:18:09 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Pat Gefre Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: Altix I/O code reorganization - 7 of 21 Message-ID: <20040812101809.E5988@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Pat Gefre , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200408112329.i7BNTP6F163641@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200408112329.i7BNTP6F163641@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com>; from pfg@sgi.com on Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:29:25PM -0500 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:29:25PM -0500, Pat Gefre wrote: > Yes, the PCI DMA mapping code is very robust no. > and tries to export > the many hardware features that are available on our system. However, not > all of these features are "reachable" via the standard Linux PCI mapping > interfaces. We have removed all unreacheable features. However, we can > still support future requirements with these new interfaces when needed. > > Yes, we did look at your patch dated: December 4th 2003. It was very good, but I mean a more recent patch I sent to Colin.