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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: Don't call bmdma_stop on non DMA capable controllers
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:17:25 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070126.001725.18306982.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701252208050.25027@woody.linux-foundation.org>

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:18:21 -0800 (PST)

> So on sparc64, "ioport_resource" really is just a container for the actual 
> per-domain resource buckets that the hardware (within that domain) will 
> then do the resource allocation from. Afaik.
> 
> But you should actaully verify that with somebody like Davem if you 
> _really_ care.  I cc'd him in case he wants to pipe up and perhaps prove 
> me wrong.

They are all physical addresses of the I/O locations.

It just so happens that all the non-memory physicall addresses
have some high bit set.

So it all works out, but not intentionally, it's merely a side
effect of how the physical address space is layed out.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-26  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-25 15:09 [PATCH] libata-sff: Don't call bmdma_stop on non DMA capable controllers Alan
2007-01-25 16:14 ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-25 16:17   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-25 16:19     ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-25 16:22     ` Russell King
2007-01-25 16:26       ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-25 17:27   ` Alan
2007-01-25 17:56     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-26  0:23       ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-26  1:28         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-26  1:45           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-26  2:01             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-26  2:11               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-26 10:37               ` Alan
2007-01-28 23:01               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-28 22:57             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-26  2:23           ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-26  2:58             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-26  3:28               ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-26  4:00                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-26  4:19                   ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-26  4:48                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-26  5:09                       ` David Woodhouse
2007-01-26  6:01                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-26  6:18                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-26  8:17                             ` David Miller [this message]
2007-01-26  8:20                         ` David Miller
2007-01-26  4:53                 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-26 15:32                 ` Mark Lord
2007-01-26 15:29               ` Mark Lord
2007-01-28 23:04               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-28 22:49       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-01-25 23:36 ` Jeff Garzik

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