Re: DAC960 in 2.5.38, with new changes

[Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org>]

Ok, thanks for explaining!

At some point, I want to step back and look over the BIO and DMA code.
Possibly this will be my "project" for October :-)

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:21:45AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:28:43 -0700, Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org> said:
> 
>   Dave> Hmm, interesting.  A big part of what I'm doing to the driver
>   Dave> right now is plugging in calls to the PCI DMA interfaces.
> 
> That's fine (actually, it's more than that: it's great!).
> 
>   Dave> So unless the underlying implementation is aware of these
>   Dave> platform limitations and "doing the right thing", I'm adding
>   Dave> a bunch of bounce buffer activity for many ia64 platforms.
>   Dave> That would be too bad.
> 
> The idea is to do something along these lines:
> 
>  o Use PCA DMA interface for managing all DMA buffers.
> 
>  o If sizeof(dma_addr_t) > 4, turn on DAC mode and call
>    pci_set_dma_mask(dev, MAX_ADDR), where MAX_ADDR is the maximum
>    address that can be reached by the controller (i.e.,
>    0xffffffffffffffff for a truly 64-bit-capable PCI controller).
> 
> This way, everything should work out correctly and with good
> performance on all imaginable platforms (ia64 with and without
> hardware I/O TLB, plain x86, x86 with >4GB RAM, SPARC64 with 32-bit
> dma_addr_t, etc.).
> 
> 	--david