Re: ioremap()/PCI sickness in 2.4.18-rc2

["Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>]

David,

Someone had a thought that perhaps the Serverworks chipset is mapping 
addresses above the 4GB boundry.  Any thoughts on how to get around
this problem?  

Jeff


On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:30:34AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
>    Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:26:12 -0500
>    
>    type abuse aside, and alpha bugs aside, this looks ok... what is the
>    value of as->msize?
> 
> Jeff and Jeff, the problem is one of two things:
> 
> 1) when you have ~2GB of memory the vmalloc pool is very small
>    and this it the same place ioremap allocations come from
> 
> 2) the BIOS or Linus is not assigning resources of the device
>    properly, or it simple can't because the available PCI MEM space
>    with this much memory is too small
> 
> I note that one of the resources of the card is 16MB or so.
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