From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>,
arndb@arndb.de
Subject: Re: A question about ZONE_DMA
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:07:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxqiaxes.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101013151247.GF12467@foucault.redhat.com> (Casey Dahlin's message of "Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:12:48 -0400")
Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com> writes:
> Thanks for the quick replies. My youth affords me the luxury of not knowing
> much about floppy drives or parports :). All makes sense now.
In addition it is used as fallback for all kinds of other DMA which is
less than 32bits. e.g. there used to be popular systems with 31 or 29
bits addressing capability.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-13 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-13 14:52 A question about ZONE_DMA Casey Dahlin
2010-10-13 14:57 ` Oliver Neukum
2010-10-13 14:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-13 15:12 ` Casey Dahlin
2010-10-13 16:07 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-10-13 20:53 ` David Rientjes
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