From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761357AbXE1JLm (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 05:11:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752769AbXE1JLf (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 05:11:35 -0400 Received: from 85-218-34-145.dclient.lsne.ch ([85.218.34.145]:48752 "EHLO vdr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751866AbXE1JLe (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2007 05:11:34 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 11:11:18 +0200 From: Gregoire Favre To: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: ak@suse.de Subject: Re: BUG : 2.6.21.1 -> 2.6.21.3 breaks cx88 (4 Gb) Message-ID: <20070528091118.GA12886@gmail.com> References: <20070527065202.GA6908@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070527065202.GA6908@gmail.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.21.1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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 bit outdated) my budget-av and my cx88 card works just great.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 ? > -- > Grégoire FAVRE http://gregoire.favre.googlepages.com http://www.gnupg.org > http://picasaweb.google.com/Gregoire.Favre -- Grégoire FAVRE http://gregoire.favre.googlepages.com http://www.gnupg.org http://picasaweb.google.com/Gregoire.Favre