there is a good reason. In the current Alpha kernel setup there is no
DMA PCI->Host mapping for the ISA address space. So you can't do any
busmastering on the ISA bus of an alpha machine. What's needed is
support for DMA Scatter/Gather similair to the VDMA stuff in Linux/Mips.
I was thinking of adding some code, but I didn't have enough time
to do it.
> I would guess that they were added because someone noticed that
> the ISA probe would cause the alpha to barf. Well, no wonder, with
> lines like:
that was the reason for adding the ifdef around the probe for the
HP lance.
> Rather than use #ifdef __alpha__ it makes more sense to do what I did for
ok, I will change that.
Thomas.
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