Re: DAC960 in 2.5.38, with new changes

davide.rossetti (Davide.Rossetti@roma1.infn.it)
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:42:31 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 September 2002 18:54, Dave Olien wrote:
> > According to the Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt file, the new
> > DMA mapping interfaces should allow all PCI transfers to use 32-bit DMA
> > addresses. Controllers on the PCI bus should never need to use DAC
> > PCI transfers. Based on this, writel() should work even on ia64.
>
> A totally disgusting idea: MMX/x87 are also capable of transferring 8
> bytes in one instruction on ia32.

to the north bridge. but then it's a bridge matter how to translate that
access on the PCI side... I guess.
regards

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