Re: PCIe device driver question

[Sanka Piyaratna <cesanka@yahoo.com>]

Hi Alan,

Actually the failures occur at addresses lot higher than this range, I am noticing the failure at dma address 0x0000000037845000. This would be at around 900MB ?

Thanks

Sanka



----- Original Message ----
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Sanka Piyaratna <cesanka@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Thursday, 31 July, 2008 1:17:18 AM
Subject: Re: PCIe device driver question

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:00:58 -0700 (PDT)
Sanka Piyaratna <cesanka@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am currently developing a PCIe data capture card hardware and the
> device drivers to drive this. I have implemented DMA on the data
> capture and the scatter-gather DMA is implemented in the hardware.  I
> am testing this in an X86_64 architecture machine with 4 GB of RAM. I
> am able to successfully dma data into any memory (dma) address >
> 0x0000_0001_0000_0000. However, my problem is to dma data to any
> address less than this. When I try to DMA data to an address less than
> 0x0000_0001_0000_0000, the hardware device hangs indicating that the
> address does not exist.

Assuming the failures are in the range 640K-1MB then I would imagine your
bridge doesn't permit transfers via DMA to the ISA hole.



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