Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759324AbYBOSlv (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:41:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756349AbYBOSln (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:41:43 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47785 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756186AbYBOSlm (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:41:42 -0500 Message-ID: <47B5DCE2.6020802@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:41:38 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Gora CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PCI Bursting with PIO References: <4779de450802141928led16cebkfb989551eb88a8cb@mail.gmail.com> <20080215130244.780285cf@core> <4779de450802151000o2c06df0fq6d0daa22c43b935b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4779de450802151000o2c06df0fq6d0daa22c43b935b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 558 Lines: 17 Dan Gora wrote: >> >> Put a DMA controller on it ;) > > Ugh.. sadly that's what's coming. I really don't get why the > northbridge cannot burst however. Because the early Intel northbridges didn't, so noone else bothered either, since everyone designed their hardware to not require that capability. -hpa -- 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/