normally, of course, it works just fine.
I was told that the right way to support this card is through
scatter gather, but that doing that would involve re-working all dma
capable drivers, a task that I neither have the time nor the confidence to
do.
I am wondering, though, have I misunderstood this? Does making
scatter/gather dma possible require that all dma drivers use it, or is it
possible for scatter/gather dma and regular dma to coexist?
As another option, would it be possible to use sparse pci
addressing to compensate for the lack of full 32bit addressing on the
card?
As I have said previously, I am not adverse to doing work on this,
and would be extremely grateful for anyone who can give me guidance as to
the right way to do it so that I don't end up wasting a lot of time in
figuring out what the right way to do it is. I'm also not adverse to
putting in a lot of work if it can be of general benefit but isn't
tantamount to reading and partially re-writing all kernel drivers. Thank
you very much.
-Christopher Lansdown
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