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

Jeff V. Merkey
2002-02-20T17:43:15Z

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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