Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:35:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:35:42 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-022-250.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.22.250]:65206 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:35:22 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: davidm@hpl.hp.com, David Mosberger Subject: Re: DAC960 in 2.5.38, with new changes Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:40:35 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, David Mosberger , "David S. Miller" , dmo@osdl.org, axboe@suse.de, _deepfire@mail.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <15759.26918.381273.951266@napali.hpl.hp.com> <15759.35002.179075.973994@napali.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <15759.35002.179075.973994@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 786 Lines: 18 On Monday 23 September 2002 23:33, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:31:13 +0200, Daniel Phillips said: > > Daniel> Why attempt to write 8 bytes on ia32 when only 4 are needed? > > Even on ia32 you'll need 8 bytes if the controller is operated in DAC > mode (which is what you want for a machine with >4GB of memory), no? Firm maybe. The current driver does not attempt to do that on ia32, and you're saying it should? In that case should the driver not have #define DAC_64, or similar? Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/