Re: PRD_ENTRIES is 256

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wednesday 25 of February 2004 10:53, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> PRD_ENTRIES is specified to be precisely 256; on platforms where
>> PAGE_SIZE varies from 4KB the calculation in the current expression
>> defining it is inaccurate, which may cause crashes. This patch changes
>> it to the constant literal 256.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:11:13PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Ok, thanks.  However I cannot find 256 entries limit in any ATA document
> and from looking at the code 512 entries shouldn't be a problem (?).
> --bart

The numbers I'm fishing out of things say that the PRD table can't
exceed 64KB in size as it can't cross a 64KB boundary and its length
is specified as a 16-bit byte count, so some other method of sizing
the thing may be in order. I do recall something went wrong at the
time I ran into this. If I turn up where I thought the number 256 came
from I'll cite it.


-- wli
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