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Subject: Re: highmem, aic7xxx, and vfat: too few segs for dma mapping
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

>    From: G?rard Roudier <groudier@free.fr>
>    Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:22:30 +0100 (CET)
>
>    PCI was intended to be implemented as a LOCAL BUS with all agents on the
>    LOCAL BUS being able to talk with any other agent using a flat addressing
>    scheme. Your PCI thing does not look like true PCI to me, but rather like
>    some bad mutant that has every chance not to survive a long time.
>
> Intentions are neither here nor there.  PCI is MORE USEFUL, because
> you CAN do things like IOMMU's and treat PCI like a complete seperate
> I/O bus world.

But there are a couple of things you cannot do with PCI. For example, you
cannot mow the lawn with PCI. But since there is always room for
improvement... :-) :-)

  G?rard.

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