Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:16:17 +0100 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: Confirmation request about new 2.4.x. kernel limits |
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0800, Tim Wright wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:21:56PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: > [...] > > On the other hand, Alpha systems and SPARC systems have IOMMU hardware, > > and we do support that (to some extent), but 32-bit intel world doesn't > > have similar things. > > you are correct in saying that ia32 systems don't have IOMMU hardware,
Well, there is: AGPGART does something like this. I don't know, if it support more than 32bits address space, though.
> but it's unfortunate that we don't support 64-bit PCI bus master cards,
Indeed.
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