Subject: Re: sparc64 and defpa fddi
To: William Waites <ww@styx.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 12/17/2001 08:15:00
At 06:00 PM 12/16/2001 -0500, William Waites wrote:
>but i have run into a problem most likely because nobody has
>tried to get a fddi card to work in a pci ultrasparc.
>when support for the pci defpa fddi card is compiled in,
>the kernel drops into the debugger with a data access
>exception apparently in the pciattach phase. here is
>part of a cut-and-paste from the serial console
>(complete boot messages and backtrace from my current
>kerlen as well as the 20011205 snapshot kernel are in
>ftp://ftp.styx.org/users/ww/anaphora.txt):

Hmmm.  Well, I just got a u5 so I could try a defpa in it.
Looking at the trace, it may be a bug in the sparc64 bus_dma
code.

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