At 01:36 PM 1/1/2003, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:49:18PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
>  > how about 32-bit PCI controllers on >=4GB memory?
>  >
>  > such powerfull system is likely to have 4GB of RAM or more.
>
>Bounce buffers.  Hooray.  (I would suspect that most high-performance
>systems that can support > 4GB RAM would also have PCI devices which
>can do 64-bit addressing...)

Except that even on alpha with 64bit PCI adapters that can address
 >4GB, we still use the SGMAP and map buffers < 4GB.  We really need
to fix this (whether it's having both 32bit and 64bit dmatags or
being able to pass a BUS_DMA_xxx flag indicating that no SGMAP
entries are needed.


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