From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: skge dysfunction on Amd X2 machine with 4GB memory
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:50:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070220115029.7b6b7e66@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070220071502.GA5081@tuatara.stupidest.org>
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:15:02 -0800
Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 04:57:55PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>
> > With the skge driver there seems to be some sort of problem to work
> > in a system with memory above the 4 GB of PCI address space.
>
> The chipset (apparently) doesn't deal with bus addresses over 4GB even
> though the MAC does.
>
> I guess the right way to fix this long term is to detect systems with
> these chips and mask the dma_mask globally (or if you're clever per
> bus)?
This needs to be done in via PCI quirks blacklisting. The driver has no
real way to test it.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-20 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-11 14:57 skge dysfunction on Amd X2 machine with 4GB memory Matti Aarnio
2007-02-20 7:15 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-02-20 19:50 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-02-21 1:06 ` Matti Aarnio
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