Re: PATCH: Further aacraid work

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:58:34PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Yikes.  This looked like they usual use 32bit dma descriptors if not
> enough memory hacks to me.  If aacraid is that royally fucked we should
> probably add CONFIG_X86 to it.

Its working on x86-32, x86-64 and I believe (Mark can confirm this) IA-64.
I'm fairly sure there are some platforms that aren't going to fit the
hardware's view of the world which seems to be

0[DMAable area..................]defined limit   [4Gb+.. PAE mode on some]

The later cards also have a 2Gb limit for the ring buffers, but not for the
I/O you want to target


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