Re: cmpci: dma buffer crosses 64k boundary

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:44:11 -0600 (CST)

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Manfred wrote:
> I think we must continue to guarantee that x-byte allocations are aligned on
> x-byte boundaries.

Isn't that wasteful if not required? For example my Via audio chip
only needs dword alignment for the addresses passed to it in the
scatter-gather DMA table.

Jeff

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