[PATCH] [2/2] POWERPC: Lower threshold for DART enablement to 1GB, V2

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Apr 14 06:52:44 EST 2006


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.





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