Subject: Re: bce(4) and memory > 1GB problem
To: Jachym Holecek <freza@dspfpga.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/08/2007 18:32:37
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:54:09AM +0100, Jachym Holecek wrote:
> # 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?

seconded.

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