Re: CONFIG_BIGMEM and rawio

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:00:04 +0100 (BST)


> Again: it depends on what you have to do. If you want to use raw-io to
> grab a mmaped framebuffer you can use raw-io fine also with bigmem
> enabled.

Not really. We need to put a ton of stuff in PCI quirks before we can
let people do that in anything but suicide mode.

PCI<->PCI bus mastering DMA running card to card is a fiction on a lot
of chipsets, and even on some others requires you configure the chipset
in bug avoidance mode (eg triton)

Raw I/O from PCI/ISA space to PCI/ISA space needs bounce buffers on plenty
of chipsets too

Alan

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