From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Venkatesh Ramamurthy <Venkateshr@ami.com>
Cc: "'Andi Kleen'" <ak@suse.de>,
Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
"'Pavel Machek'" <pavel@suse.cz>,
adefacc@tin.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, timw@splhi.com
Subject: Re: Confirmation request about new 2.4.x. kernel limits
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:47:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010109184755.A7377@gruyere.muc.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355693A51C0D211B55A00105ACCFE64E9513D@ATL_MS1>
In-Reply-To: <1355693A51C0D211B55A00105ACCFE64E9513D@ATL_MS1>; from Venkateshr@ami.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:35:02PM -0500
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:35:02PM -0500, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
>
> > Problem is that it needs a driver interface change and cooperation from
> > the
> > drivers.
> [Venkatesh Ramamurthy] Atleast the spec for this new interface,
> that the driver has to support be prepared? Once this is done we can port
> driver by driver to this new standard.
AFAIK there is no spec yet. Just supporting 64bit DMA on 32bit hosts would
probably only minor changes (like pushing the dma_mask flag a bit more out so
that it is visible by scsi or ll_rw_blk), but 2.5 will probably also see more
extensive changes for block drivers, like moving them to kiovecs.
Your input would be probably welcome.
-Andi
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-09 17:35 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-09 17:47 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2001-01-09 18:00 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-09 15:15 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-09 15:51 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-09 4:11 Venkatesh Ramamurthy
2001-01-09 12:21 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-01-09 16:27 ` Tim Wright
2001-01-09 16:44 ` Andi Kleen
2001-01-09 16:50 ` Tim Wright
2001-01-10 13:16 ` Kurt Garloff
2001-01-09 14:05 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-04 11:50 A.D.F.
2001-01-04 11:23 ` Tigran Aivazian
2001-01-04 11:50 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-05 22:46 ` Pavel Machek
2001-01-09 14:03 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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