Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86, gart: Make sure GART does not map physmemabove 1TB

From: Roedel, Joerg
Date: Tue Apr 19 2011 - 10:30:03 EST


On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 09:43:54AM -0400, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/19/2011 12:25 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, this file mostly contains the dma-ops implementation that uses the
> >>>> K8 gart plus some k8-gart specific initialization functions.
> >>>
> >>> Does the file want to be renamed to pci-amd_gart_64.c or so?
> >>
> >> Hmm, that seems long. How about just amd64_gart.c?
> >
>
> Arguably we call this the k8_nb in other places, so my suggestion would
> be k8_gart.c

The k8_nb was renamed to amd_nb recently. The NB is implemented in all
64 bit AMD processors and there are more today then K8. The k8_nb was
historically chosen and misleading today.

Joerg

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