Subject: problem with bus_dma on alpha 1.5G RAM [was Re: problem with bus_dma on i386 1.5G RAM]
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/24/2001 09:06:58
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 03:58:04PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> in PR kern/14015 is reported a problem with the ahc driver looping on
> "adapter resource shortage" message. More investigation shows that
> the bus_dmamap_load() call in ahc_setup_data() is failing with error 22
> (EINVAL).
> The author also discovered that bus_dmamap_load() also occasionally fails
> with error 22 in the tlp driver.
> 
> This machine has 1.5G RAM, so I suspect the i386 bus_dma function
> have a problem with large address space (maybe an int overflow somewhere).
> Does anyone out there have an idea ?

Hum, sorry... it appears that the machine in question isn't a i386
but an alpha; a PWS433a to be precise. Sorry for the wrong information

Also the machine seems stable with only 1G RAM.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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