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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:19:44 +0100
From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
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To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
CC: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] firewire: Enable physical DMA above 4GB
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Peter Hurley wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-03-29 at 11:44 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> On Mar 26 Peter Hurley wrote:
>>>> The FW643e-2 is natively PCIe (not behind a bridge) and supports phys
>>>> DMA past 4GB (the datasheet says all 48 bits but I can only test it out
>>>> to 10GB).
>>>>
>>>> I thought the FW643e was as well? You'll have to test that out :)
>>
>> Does lspci or something similar show which PCI devices are capable of 64 bit
>> wide addressing?
>
> Not definitively.
>
> Usually (but not always), if the host registers are 64-bit addressable,
> then the device supports DAC.

DACs are a feature of conventional PCI.

All PCI Express devices are 64-bit addressable.  In the lspci output, PCIe
devices have the "Express" capability.

However, whether a device can *generate* 64-bit DMA requests is completely
device-specific.


Regards,
Clemens
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