Re: qla1280 driver for qlogic-1040 on alpha

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On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 4:59 PM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  It's not required for the mask returned by dma_get_required_mask() to be
> 32-bit, so unless your card does support DAC (and everything so far shows
> it does not), it will still fail on another platform where the function
> does return a mask beyond 32 bits.
>

I guess that's right, It might still break then if DMA_BIT_MASK is set
> 32bits on other platforms

>  Are you able to verify your card with a non-Alpha system that has memory
> beyond the low 32-bit DMA space?  I guess not, or you'd have done that
> already, wouldn't you?
>

No, I don't, my other systems are either PCIe or have less than 4GB RAM.
I might be able to get my hands on a HP Z440 which I've been told has
one 32-bit PCI slot.

>  If you really wanted to double-check your Alpha correctly supports DAC,
> you could try wiring your ISP1080 device temporarily via a 32-bit PCI
> riser adapter (or an external 32-bit PCI enclosure) so as to force 64-bit
> addressing via AD[31:0] lines only (assuming that ISP1080 got DAC support
> right though).



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