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From: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mandriva.org>
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Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: linux-2..6.33-rc7 and b43
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:53:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B77C819.9050602@mandriva.org> (raw)

Hi,
(please cc me on replies)

We have a user that tried out b43, but got this in the logs:

--- cut ---
65858:Feb  9 22:05:16 elmo kernel: b43-phy2 ERROR: This device does not
support DMA on your system. Please use PIO instead. 65859:Feb  9 
22:05:16 elmo kernel: b43-phy2 ERROR: CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO must
be set in your kernel configuration.
65860:Feb  9 22:05:16 elmo kernel: b43-phy2 debug: Adding Interface type 2
65861:Feb  9 22:05:16 elmo kernel: b43-phy2 ERROR: Fatal DMA error:
0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000 
 

65862:Feb  9 22:05:16 elmo kernel: b43-phy2 ERROR: This device does not
support DMA on your system. Please use PIO instead.
65863:Feb  9 22:05:16 elmo kernel: b43-phy2 ERROR: CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO 
must be set in your kernel configuration.
--- cut ---



But reading the Kconfig help, it states:
--- cut ---
config B43_FORCE_PIO
         bool "Force usage of PIO instead of DMA"
         depends on B43 && B43_DEBUG
         ---help---
           This will disable DMA and always enable PIO instead.

           Say N!
           This is only for debugging the PIO engine code. You do
           _NOT_ want to enable this.
--- cut ---


So,
wich one is it ?

Do I belive the dmesg output, or the Kconfig ?

Note,
the b43 works for the user if he enable the CONFIG_B43_FORCE_PIO.

But I'm thinking of this problem from a distro point of view.
Will it break for others if I enable it ?

--
Thomas

             reply	other threads:[~2010-02-14  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-14  9:53 Thomas Backlund [this message]
2010-02-14 16:36 ` linux-2..6.33-rc7 and b43 Larry Finger
2010-02-14 18:44   ` Thomas Backlund
2010-02-14 18:44     ` Thomas Backlund
2010-02-14 18:59     ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-14 19:18       ` Thomas Backlund
2010-02-14 21:53         ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-14 21:53           ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-14 22:38           ` Larry Finger
2010-02-14 19:24     ` Larry Finger
2010-02-14 19:24       ` Larry Finger

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