Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932283AbVILWCZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:02:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932286AbVILWCZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:02:25 -0400 Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([131.155.3.6]:36879 "EHLO kweetal.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932283AbVILWCY (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:02:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4325FAE7.6030501@etpmod.phys.tue.nl> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:02:15 +0200 From: Bart Hartgers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Alan Cox , Andi Kleen , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: [1/3] Add 4GB DMA32 zone References: <43246267.mailL4R11PXCB@suse.de> <1126520900.30449.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200509121242.20910.ak@suse.de> <1126524787.30449.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4325C67C.7070809@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <4325C67C.7070809@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1058 Lines: 36 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >> On Llu, 2005-09-12 at 12:42 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >> >>> Yes I know some soundcards have similar limits, but for all >>> these we still have GFP_DMA and they always have been quite happy >>> with that. >> >> >> >> No current shipping card, also those that need it typically need small >> amounts (they'll live with 8K) > > > > [...just because I love broken hardware, not because I've been following > this thread...] > > RealTek's ALS4000 PCI card is a SoundBlaster ISA clone chip glued onto a > PCI bus. Its DMA mask is 24-bit, IIRC. :) > > Jeff > Yep. You're absolutely right about the card. Google doesn't find anyone still selling them, though... Apart from ebay ;-) (Wrote the driver and got rid of the d*mn thing 2 weeks later...) Cheers, Bart - 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/