Re: [PATCH] [3/22] Remove unchecked_isa_dma in advansys.c

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:40:35PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > (I must have fixed it somehow because it works on parisc, which is most
> > unforgiving of drivers which do DMA without the DMA API).
> 
> At least on x86 the DMA API cannot do ISA bouncing.

You're saying that if I set a 24-bit DMA mask, and then do a
pci_alloc_coherent(), x86 might hand me back something that's not
accessible?  That would be just broken.

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