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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com
Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops in bk pull (oct 03)
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 19:00:53 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021004.190053.69975722.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210041839430.13749-100000@home.transmeta.com>

   From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
   Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:41:25 -0700 (PDT)
   
   On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
   > Another theory is that some device just dislikes being given
   > a 0 in one of it's base registers, but somehow ~0 is ok :-)
   
   I think that is the real issue. We're mapping something - probably a host
   bridge - at address 0, and then accessing RAM (which is also is mapped at 
   PCI address 0) and the host bridge is unhappy.

We're current blindly putting ~0 in there, how can that be any
better? :-)
   
   So excluding the change is probably the right thing to do - it's just 
   fundamentally buggy to blindly put a base register at zero.
   
And putting ~0 there is ok?

>From what you're saying, that whole routine is fundamentally broken.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-05  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-04 20:14 oops in bk pull (oct 03) Paul E. Erkkila
2002-10-04 21:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-05  0:03   ` Paul E. Erkkila
2002-10-05  0:33   ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-05  0:40     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-05  0:51       ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-05  1:02         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-05  1:13           ` David S. Miller
2002-10-05  1:27             ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-05  1:41             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-05  2:00               ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-10-05  2:22                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-05  2:22                   ` David S. Miller
2002-10-05  2:00               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-05  3:20                 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-05  3:26                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-05  9:35                     ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-10-05  1:14           ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-05  0:44     ` Alexander Viro

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