Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:25:02 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA |
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:56:15PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:55:37PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 14:34, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > umm. are you volunteering to convert drivers/net/macmace.c to the pci_* > > > API then? also, GFP_DMA is used on, eg, s390 to get memory below 2GB and > > > on ia64 to get memory below 4GB. > > > > The ia64 is a fine example of how broken it is. People have to hack around > > with GFP_DMA meaning different things on ia64 to everything else. It needs > > to die. > > At least on x86-64 it is still needed when you need have some hardware > with address limits < 4GB (e.g. an 24bit soundcard) > > pci_* on K8 only allows address mask 0xffffffff or unlimited.
That's a bit broken... I have an ALS4000 PCI soundcard that is a 24-bit soundcard. pci_set_dma_mask should support 24-bits accordingly, otherwise it's a bug in your platform implementation... Nobody will be able to use certain properly-written drivers on your platform otherwise.
Jeff
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