Re: Confirmation request about new 2.4.x. kernel limits

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:44:46 +0100


On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0800, Tim Wright wrote:
> you are correct in saying that ia32 systems don't have IOMMU hardware, but
> it's unfortunate that we don't support 64-bit PCI bus master cards, since
> they're inexpensive and fairly common now. For instance, the Qlogic ISP SCSI
> cards can do 64-bit addressing, as can many others. Has anybody taken a look
> at enabling this ?

Problem is that it needs a driver interface change and cooperation from the
drivers.

-Andi
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