Re: sun4c driver/dma problems

[Uli Luckas <luckas@musoft.de>]

Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2004 17:53 schrieb Keith M Wesolowski:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:22:44AM +0200, Uli Luckas wrote:
> > the above cited DMA message seems to be the root of the driver problems.
> > From the 2.2.26 kernel I know it should read:
> > dma0: Revision 1
> >
> > So what can I do to help, getting this fixed? Who works on this code?
> > I already know, it's not only the version detection. Defining a new
> > version 70000000 "Revision 1 broken" and initialising it just as a
> > "Revision 1" works around the above message, but all the device drivers
> > report all kind of DMA related problems later on and of course don't
> > work.
>
> Reading your messages, I'm uncertain exactly how well 2.2.26 works.
> Can you please clarify?  If it's perfect, then I may invest a few
> hours trying to fix this for you in 2.6.  If there's no known-working
> kernel, it's unlikely that it ever will be fixed.

Dear Keith,
thanks for your work. 
As I have read, you are retiering from sparc32 kernel development. Is there 
any hint that could get me going on fixing the above problems myself? Do you 
have asumptions on where the problem can be found?

Regards
Uli