From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:26:15 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6 Message-ID: <20000907162615.D6580@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <200008171950.MAA45378@google.engr.sgi.com> <200008171941.MAA24042@pizda.ninka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200008171941.MAA24042@pizda.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:41:52PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "David S. Miller" Cc: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, sct@redhat.com, roman@augan.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, nico@cam.org, davidm@hpl.hp.com List-ID: On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:41:52PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > ISA is a dead hardware technology and therefore how it works is pretty > much fixed in stone. > > Perhaps some older MIPS machines supporting ISA could benefit from > an API similar to the PCI dma stuff, as Alan mentioned. But that is > the only case which has any merit in my mind. ISA isn't really a consideration for MIPS. All that ISA hardware couldn't be supported by treating it the same as on a x86 system. That's not top efficient but justified given the importance of ISA for MIPS boxes - nearly NIL. Ralf -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/