From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751611AbWCGANg (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:13:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752055AbWCGANg (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:13:36 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:49480 "EHLO pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751611AbWCGANf (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:13:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:15:22 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space on x86-64 (Athlon64x2), with solution In-reply-to: <5MyAS-5zh-5@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <440CD09A.9040005@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: <5Mq18-1Na-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <5MqNc-2Y5-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <5MqX4-39H-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <5MyAS-5zh-5@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Freitag, 3. März 2006 23:23 Jeff Garzik wrote: >> I'll happen but not soon. Motivation is low at NV and here as well, >> since newer NV is AHCI. The code in question, "NV ADMA", is >> essentially legacy at this point -- though I certainly acknowledge >> the large current installed base. Just being honest about the >> current state of things... > > I'd like to raise motivation a lot because most MB sold here (central > Europe) are Nforce4 with Athlon64x2 at the moment. It would be nice > from vendors if they support OSS developers more, as it's their > interest to have good drivers. I second that.. It appears that nForce4 will continue to be a popular chipset even after the Socket AM2 chips are released, so the demand for this (and for NCQ support as well, likely) will only increase. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/