From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264281AbTEGVdA (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 17:33:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264285AbTEGVdA (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 17:33:00 -0400 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:49348 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264281AbTEGVc5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 17:32:57 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 21:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <20030507084920.GA823@suse.de> <20030507164613.GN823@suse.de> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1052343931 20118 212.34.181.4 (7 May 2003 21:45:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 21:45:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens Axboe writes: >I dunno what the purpose of that would be exactly, I guess to cater to >some hardware odditites? Wild guess: You can use larger transfer sizes with the 48 bit interface, even when adressing the lower 28 bit space? This might be a win for applications that stream large contigous blocks from/to a HD (Video, Audio...) Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire