Subject: Re: bge on amd64
To: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/28/2005 12:25:41
On Aug 28, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Chuck Silvers wrote:

> hi,
>
> I recently got an amd64 box and discovered that the built-in bge
> doesn't work (all received packets are garbage, though transmitted
> packets appear to be fine).  the problem is caused by some of the
> host memory having physical addresses larger than 4 GB...
> if I don't use that memory then it works fine.  a wm card works fine
> with all of the memory.  the two devices are:

Hm... at first glance, the bge driver is DTRT with 64-bit DMA  
addresses...

-- thorpej