Re: [PATCH] sata_sil: Greatly improve DMA support

[Robert Hancock]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Since Alan expressed a desire to see Large Block Transfer (LBT) support
> in pata_sil680, I though I would re-post my patch for adding LBT support
> to sata_sil.
>
> Silicon Image's Large Block Transfer (LBT) support is a vendor-specific
> DMA scatter/gather engine, which enables 64-bit DMA addresses (where
> supported by platform) and eliminates the annoying 64k DMA boundary
> found in legacy PCI IDE BMDMA engines.

Looks like it doesn't allow 64-bit DMA addresses, it only gets rid of 
the 64K boundary limitation.

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