Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:02:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 07:12 -0600, Robin Holt wrote:
> > An earlier proposal that Christoph pushed would have used the BTE on
> > sn2 for this.  Are you thinking of using the BTE on sn0/sn1 mips?
>
> I wasn't being that specific. There's spare DMA engines on a lot of
> PPC/ARM/FRV/SH/MIPS and other machines, to name just the ones sitting
> around my desk.

If you look at the patch you will find a function call to register a
hardware driver for zeroing. I did not include the driver in this patch
because there was no change. Look at my other posts regarding prezeroing.
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