Re: [PATCH] [2/2] POWERPC: Lower threshold for DART enablement to1GB, V2

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Apr 13 2006 - 16:53:12 EST


On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 20:31 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:07:12AM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> > Walking the DT means we need to hardcode it on PCI IDs, since the Apple
> > OF doesn't give the Airport device a logical name. It's probably easier
> > to implement than walking PCI, but we'd need to maintain a table. My
> > vote is for PCI walking, I'll give that a shot over the weekend.
>
> Cool! bonus points if you do it in drivers/pci and we can steal it
> easily for Calgary on x8-64 :-)

How so ? Anything remotely related to the iommu is totally different...
Besides, on x86-64, laptops _are_ more common, and thus the problem of
cardbus cards is much more significant.

Ben.


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/