From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dealing with buggy hardware (was: b44 and 4g4g)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:05:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040610200504.GG4507@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040609122905.GA12715@ee.oulu.fi>
Hi!
> > > + if(virt_to_bus(skb->data) + skb->len > B44_PCI_DMA_MAX) {
> >
> > You can't use this non-portable interface, you have to:
> >
> > 1) pci_map the data
> > 2) test the dma_addr_t returned
> Ok, fixed. Certainly not ideal, but should fix things for those with
> problems (ie. running the 4G4G patch) and work as before for everyone else.
>
This should hit machines with 2GB ram too, right?
Is it possible to find if it hits me? I get hard lockups on
2GB machine with b44, but they take ~5min.. few hours to
reproduce...
It seems to me like this should hit very quickly.
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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-10 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-31 20:21 b44 and 4g4g Pekka Pietikainen
2004-06-05 20:06 ` Dealing with buggy hardware (was: b44 and 4g4g) Pekka Pietikainen
2004-06-05 20:19 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-09 12:29 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-06-10 20:05 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2004-06-10 20:34 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-06-10 21:12 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-11 6:17 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-06-11 9:45 ` Pavel Machek
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