Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:55:38 -0600 | Subject | Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot | From | Otto Solares <> |
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:27:37AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:20:56 -0600 > Otto Solares <solca@guug.org> wrote: > > > everything else includes the generic one (pci dependant). > > With this model what happens if a box had more than one > > bus type (if technically possible)? > > If the architecture wants to support such situations, > then the implementation needs to vector off to different > operations based upon the actual bus type. > > Even though technically devices having SBUS and PCI variants could do > this, none do currently, and also I do not use the generic device > model in the SBUS layer, therefore I'm not going to add such multi-bus > support to what Sparc uses for dma-mapping.h
ok, i understand now. Theorically could be nice the new API, i better stick with the current per-bus-drivers.
> If someone is bored and willing to do all of the generic device and > ->dma_ops work for Sparc and SBUS, feel free to send me some patches. > Otherwise, it won't get done :-)
:) fine with me.
-solca
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