From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dan Gora <dan.gora@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI Bursting with PIO
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:41:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B5DCE2.6020802@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4779de450802151000o2c06df0fq6d0daa22c43b935b@mail.gmail.com>
Dan Gora wrote:
>>
>> Put a DMA controller on it ;)
>
> Ugh.. sadly that's what's coming. I really don't get why the
> northbridge cannot burst however.
Because the early Intel northbridges didn't, so noone else bothered
either, since everyone designed their hardware to not require that
capability.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-15 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-15 3:28 PCI Bursting with PIO Dan Gora
2008-02-15 10:54 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-15 17:55 ` Dan Gora
2008-02-15 13:02 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-15 18:00 ` Dan Gora
2008-02-15 18:41 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-02-15 19:00 ` Alan Cox
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2008-02-16 6:00 ` Robert Hancock
2008-02-17 4:53 ` Dan Gora
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2008-02-17 19:06 ` Robert Hancock
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