Re: BUG : 2.6.21.1 -> 2.6.21.3 breaks cx88 (4 Gb)

Re: BUG : 2.6.21.1 -> 2.6.21.3 breaks cx88 (4 Gb)

[Gregoire Favre]

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:52:02AM +0200, Gregoire Favre wrote:

Oops,

i was wrong : I did patch my 2.6.21.1 with x86_64-mm-vmalloc-32.patch :

Fix vmalloc_32 to really allocate <4GB on 64bit platforms

Ugly ifdef, but should handle all 64bit platforms that have suitable
zones. On some like Altix it's probably impossible without IOMMU
use to get memory <4GB this way,  but they have to live with that.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

And I don't remember exactly what else (in case that needed I could look
at my email archive) but the bug that was found in 2.6.21 regarding the
use of system with 4Gb is still present in 2.6.21.3 : is that something
that was forgotten to be included ?

Please CC to me all lkml answer as I am not on lkml, thank.

> Hello,
> 
> I thought my budget Geniatech DVB-S was out of order, because there was
> high lightning, but it's not the case.
> 
> Under 2.6.21.1 with included dvb driver and with hg drivers (a little
> bit outdated) my budget-av and my cx88 card works just great.
> 
> Under 2.6.21.3 with included dvb driver and with hg drivers (up to date
> from yesterday) my budget-av works just great, but the cx88 can only
> tune but don't deliver anything ???
> 
> In case that matter I am under 64 bits (Core 2 Duo).
> 
> Anyone got an idea what might cause this ?
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