Re: [PATCH] sata_sil: Greatly improve DMA support

[Jeff Garzik]

Robert Hancock wrote:
> 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.

rotfl.  Boy am I dumb.  I -thought- my patch, written months ago, 
included that bit.  But obviously it does not.  Let's add that...

	Jeff



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