Subject: Re: VS4000 SCSI: status
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/08/2000 13:18:12
At 01:07 PM 3/8/00 , Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:26:33 -0800
> > Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The problem is that the ncr53c9x MI code doesn't pass a ptr to the proc
> > > so I can't pass it to bus_dmamap_load. I didn't feel like changing the
> > > MI interface.
> >
> > ...and, in fact, it's not appropriate to pass the proc * in, because the
> > code assumes kernel addresses, because physio() calls vmapbuf() :-)
> >
>Yes, that is a problem here: All other drivers assume that
>vmapbuf/vunmapbuf do _not_ do anything, otherwise they do not work with
>raw I/O.
I looked at modifying the ncr53c9x to pass the proc but that would involve
extensive changes (such more than i would want to make). I might be able
to cheat and only do vmapbuf/vunmapbuf on KA46/KA48/KA49.
Also today I found out that the KA49 (and related designs) use a slightly
different mechanism for their SGMAP. Since they have a SGEC, they only have
a 8192 entry SGMAP in dedicated SRAM. So the vsbus_dma needs adapt to this
difference.
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