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Re: Crash on port-amd64



On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:56:50PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Andrew Doran wrote:
> 
> >How much memory does this machine have?
> 
> 8GB:

That would explain it. There is an issue with DMA bounce-buffering. Most
drivers/devices cannot handle 64-bit physical addresses. It's likely that
a device is doing a bus-master transfer with an address chopped to 32 bits
and is blatting the kernel stack. I'm looking into it.

Andrew


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