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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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On 01 Sep 2003 18:27:45 +0200
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:

> How about breaking the existing sound drivers (not checked other things)
> on ia64 and x86-64?

So ask the port maintainers in question to add the necessary
consistent DMA code to their PCI platform layer.

I think you'll make a lot more progress than you have in this
thread so far, if you do as I suggest.