Re: 32-bit dma allocations on 64-bit platforms

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Jun 26 2004 - 02:21:00 EST


On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 07:05, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:19:22 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> Jeff> swiotlb was a dumb idea when it hit ia64, and it's now been propagated
> Jeff> to x86-64 :(
>
> If it's such a dumb idea, why not submit a better solution?

the real solution is an iommu of course, but the highmem solution has
quite some merit too..... I know you disagree with me on that one
though.

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