Subject: Re: bce(4) and memory > 1GB problem
To: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
From: Jachym Holecek <freza@dspfpga.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/08/2007 11:54:09
# Quentin Garnier 2007-01-08:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:17:01AM +0200, Yorick Hardy wrote:
> > I encountered this problem with 2GB of RAM on an HP nx6310.
> > 
> > The attached patch (for 4 BETA) may not be the right way to solve
> > the problem, but it does get the network working for me.
> 
> It certainly is a step is the right direction.  Thanks a lot!
> 
> I hope someone with strong x86 and bus_dma fu will look at it soon.

Just a data point -- I've seen more than one piece of hardware sharing
exactly this kind of limitation (PCI gear mostly), so maybe it would
make sense to integrate the flag into generic bus_dma(9) API?

	-- Jachym