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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:17:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/busdma index.sgml style.css (fwd)
Message-ID:  <15862.23035.670672.895@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021210160511.62186P-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <15862.22081.436375.524026@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021210160511.62186P-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson writes:
 > > As I said before, some (all?) scsi drivers use it.  Isa devices which
 > > work on alpha use it.  It works for the older raw bus_dmamap_load.  Its
 > > the mbuf interface which is untested. 
 > 
 > Sorry, I should have been more specific -- that's what I meant.  Do you
 > know if the _uio loading interface works?

No, I think that Sam added this at the same time as the mbuf
interface, so its untested as well.

 > >  > improvement to better support large memory systems.  Do you mind if I set
 > >  > you as the task owner on the busdma page for making sure alpha busdma is
 > >  > up to spec?  I'd like to make sure all this stuff is in line for 5.1, if
 > >  > we can.
 > > 
 > > Depends what you mean by "up to spec".  If you mean making sure the mbuf
 > > interface works, then yes.  If you mean making large memory machine work
 > > well, then no. 
 > 
 > "up to spec" in the sense that network interface drivers will continue to
 > work as they are converted. 
 > 

Then yes.

Drew

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