Re: PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space on x86-64 (Athlon64x2), with solution

[Robert Hancock]

Michael Monnerie wrote:
> On Freitag, 3. März 2006 23:23 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > I'll happen but not soon.  Motivation is low at NV and here as well,
> > since newer NV is AHCI.  The code in question, "NV ADMA", is
> > essentially legacy at this point -- though I certainly acknowledge
> > the large current installed base.  Just being honest about the
> > current state of things...
>
> I'd like to raise motivation a lot because most MB sold here (central 
> Europe) are Nforce4 with Athlon64x2 at the moment. It would be nice 
> from vendors if they support OSS developers more, as it's their 
> interest to have good drivers.

I second that.. It appears that nForce4 will continue to be a popular 
chipset even after the Socket AM2 chips are released, so the demand for 
this (and for NCQ support as well, likely) will only increase.

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