On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 04:47:39PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Doesn't handle the 32-bit Xserver on 64-bit kernel issue though. If I
> want this to work for 2.2.x (which lacks mmap64) as well as 2.4.x
> then the way to hide all of these details is to mmap on the device.
Ug. True enough.
> To the point, I'd like it if we all could agree to adopt something
> which addresses everyone's known concerns. Just like we did for
> the pci DMA mapping infrastructure. :-)
Indeed. Aside from the mmap64 issue, what else are you missing?
Jeff, what sorts of things were you having to change for Titan?
It feels wrong that you'd have to have reverse mappings at all.
But then again, no one claimed that the X pci code is designed
so much as evolved...
r~
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