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Re: wm(4) misreporting PCI bus properties



On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:42:21PM +0000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> > You are right.
> > 
> > It turns out I that forgot to install the discarded 64-bit PCI card I got
> > from work a while ago. Sorry for the noise. :-(
> 
> OTOH, since SPARC uses an IOMMU, I'm not sure 64-bit is ever used.

The 64-bit is not only about increased address space but also about
increased bandwidth. Considering that there at least two
64-bit 33MHz slots in an ULTRA60 I would be surprised if the
extra bandwidth wouldn't be used.

        Kind regards

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/


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