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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Joseph P. Garcia" <jpgarcia@execpc.com>,
	<linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.10-ben0 doesn't see ide1
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 19:51:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010930175148.29787@smtp.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010930122211.2cf9b2f7.jpgarcia@execpc.com>


>Rack this up as an OF bug on some systems I think.  I got it too
>(Wallstreet2/300).  The OF IDE nodes request what look like twice memory
>as much as they need.  Linux doesn't even use most of it anyway.
>
>The two ide busses in my system have resources 0x10000 apart, while they
>both reserve a size of 0x20000 (IIRC).  Since BenH's recent kernels
>reserve space based on OF, and then request it realistically, in this
>situation, it will fail on half of the resource allocation.  Even though
>we don't use the overlapping area...
>
>Quick fix? halve all the resource sizes of the ide nodes. (DMA's space
>also does this).  I don't know what the long term fix would be.

Ok, thanks for figuring out what was breaking request_OF_node on
those machines, I didn't yet had a chance to look at it in more
details ;)

A "good" fix would probably be to fixup OF ranges early during
boot, but for now, I think just limiting how much memory is
requested will be enough.

BTW. Once that's fixed, does media bay works on lombard & wallstreet
machines with my new kernel ? I rewrote the media bay driver but
didn't yet have a chance to test it on anything but Pismo.

Also, Joseph, did you notice similar problem with other OF resources
ranges or is this specific to IDE ?

Ben.


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-30 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-30 10:04 2.4.10-ben0 doesn't see ide1 Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2001-09-30 17:22 ` Joseph P. Garcia
2001-09-30 17:51   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2001-09-30 18:13     ` Joseph P. Garcia
2001-09-30 19:12       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-09-30 19:39         ` Joseph P. Garcia
2001-10-01 12:28           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-01  8:08     ` Michael Schmitz
2001-10-01 18:00   ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen

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