Subject: Re: bge(4) (DEGXA-TX) no-go on the AlphaServer ES40
To: NetBSD/alpha Discussion List <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/27/2004 23:18:27
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On Nov 19, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:

>>  The bge driver is probably
>> gobbling up all of the SGMAP resources...
>
> I suppose that's one good possibility.  The machine does seem to stay
> relatively stable even after the device is hung and so it's unlikely to
> be a more catastrophic bug such as a wild pointer scribbling all over.

Yah, here's another happy-fun problem... the bge driver is totally 
broken -- it never unloads DMA maps used for Rx buffers... so on 
platforms like alpha or sparc64 that use a DMA mapper, those resources 
will eventually be leaked away totally.

I'm working on a fix.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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