From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: fischer@linux-buechse.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Why is AHA152X_CS !64BIT?
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:13:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C7B924D.6030703@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C72D310.4040004@suse.cz>
On 08/23/2010 10:59 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see that the aha152x driver for pcmcia is marked as unsupported on
> 64bit. But I also see a patch [1] which removes the restriction based on
> user's testing in bugzilla [2].
>
> Is there a reason why it would have to be marked as !64BIT? I'm asking
> because there is an opensuse user with this card who updated to 64-bit
> distro and lost this driver thereafter.
>
> [1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-scsi/2010/3/6/6832393
> [2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14333
>
> thanks,
If memory serves correctly, it might be that you need more then 4 Gbyte
of memory installed to exercise the bug, something about IO bouncing
addresses > 4G.
But don't believe me, I might be imagining things ;-)
Boaz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-30 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-23 19:59 Why is AHA152X_CS !64BIT? Jiri Slaby
2010-08-30 11:13 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2010-09-07 21:12 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-09-07 21:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-09-07 21:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-09-07 22:10 ` James Bottomley
2010-09-07 22:16 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-09-09 20:01 ` =?unknown-8bit?B?SvxyZ2VuIEUu?= Fischer
2010-09-07 22:10 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-09-08 6:05 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-08 15:30 ` James Bottomley
2010-09-09 6:50 ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-24 19:55 ` Jiri Slaby
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