Re: DAC960 in 2.5.38, with new changes

Daniel Phillips (phillips@arcor.de)
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:40:35 +0200


On Monday 23 September 2002 23:33, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:31:13 +0200, Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> said:
>
> Daniel> Why attempt to write 8 bytes on ia32 when only 4 are needed?
>
> Even on ia32 you'll need 8 bytes if the controller is operated in DAC
> mode (which is what you want for a machine with >4GB of memory), no?

Firm maybe. The current driver does not attempt to do that on ia32, and
you're saying it should? In that case should the driver not have #define
DAC_64, or similar?

Daniel
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