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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: David Acker <dacker@roinet.com>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFT] e100 driver on ARM
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:19:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4630D116.4080202@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070417173507.GB5575@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> My suspicision (although it is only that) is that the PXA255 trying to
> access memory may cause interruptions in PCI bus master transfers, which
> is of course not permitted by the PCI spec (at least the way I read it).

Why wouldn't that be permitted?  It, in fact, happens all the time (the
host bridge withdraws the GNT# line and raises STOP#, which does a
Termination With Data of the bus transfer.)  This is a normal event and
if you can't handle it you won't work with many host bridges at all.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-26 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-04 10:39 [RFT] e100 driver on ARM Jeff Garzik
2006-09-04 12:31 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-03-28 23:04   ` Kok, Auke
2007-03-29  5:17     ` David Acker
2007-03-29 14:10       ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-04-16 15:07         ` David Acker
2007-04-17 17:35           ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-04-26 13:41             ` David Acker
2007-04-26 13:50               ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-04-26 15:12                 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-26 15:40                   ` Kok, Auke
2007-04-26 16:09                     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-26 16:20                       ` Kok, Auke
2007-04-26 16:19             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-27 19:01               ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-09-04 14:34 ` Catalin Marinas

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