Re: [RFC PATCH] nForce4 ADMA with NCQ: It's aliiiive..

From: Mark Lord
Date: Mon Oct 16 2006 - 20:04:45 EST


Robert Hancock wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
Robert Hancock wrote:
..
Be careful of that. The original PDC hardware for ADMA still had
the "don't cross a 64KB boundary" requirement.
..
That is part of the ADMA spec - but in that case, how come the pdc_adma.c driver sets the dma_boundary in the SCSI host template to 4GB? That seems wrong.

Ah, you are correct. My memory is fading of such things.
The PDC parts are good for 2^34 transfer sizes (bytes).

Cheers
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