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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 1999 09:57:35 -0400
From:      "Chuck Youse" <cyouse@cybersites.com>
To:        "Jos Backus" <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com>, "Warner Losh" <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        "Wilko Bulte" <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: The choice of MAXPHYS 
Message-ID:  <006001beb1b6$e16c7be0$4d7b5ccf@f8m7n1>

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I believe the DMA chip itself provides 20 bits, and external circuitry
extends the remaining 4 bits.

Chuck Youse
Director of Systems
cyouse@cybersites.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To: Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com>
Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>; zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu
<zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
<freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: The choice of MAXPHYS


>In message <19990603231216.A36464@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> Jos Backus
writes:
>: On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:30:20PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>: > 20 bits. But older cards can do no more than 64 kB.
>:
>: Indeed, 20 bits (=1 Mbyte) for the address, 16 bits for the transfer
counter
>: (offset).
>
>Isn't that 24 bits for addresses?  You can dma from an ISA card to
>anywhere in the first 16M...
>
>Warner
>
>
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