sound/driver/hda and ia64

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Oct 2, 2006, at 5:50 AM, Ariff Abdullah wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:22:33 +0000
> Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>>
>> During a "make universe" ia64 fails with the following errors.
>>
>> I wouldn't expect a sound driver to call any of those functions at
>> all, what's going on ?

*snip*

> I wish BUS_DMA_NOCACHE has real meaning (like what NetBSD did) since
> uncached DMA is pretty much guarantee to make the driver works on
> broken i386/amd86 hardwares.
>
> Should we just narrow this down to i386/amd64 , or give
> BUS_DMA_NOCACHE a real meaning as part of bus_dmamem_alloc() ?

Ideally, we should fix our busdma implementation. In the mean time,
feel free to make this driver specific to i386/amd64 because it now
actually is specific to i386/amd64 and a broken make universe is a
bother to other developers.

Just my $0.02

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Marcel Moolenaar
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