Re: Alpha: virt_to_bus/GFP_DMA problem

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:56:06 +0100


Jes Sorensen wrote:

> I take it that Pyxis is a type of Alpha box?

Yep.

> always be above the 1GB limit. In this case it simply means that you
> are out of luck, yet another broken PCI device, and the driver should
> simply print a warning and exit, without panicing the box.

But why is kmalloc(GFP_DMA) returning any memory at all?
Doesn't the definition of GFP_DMA imply that its bus address should lie
below 16M?

> Time to moan at the people who did the ESS Solo1 and ask them to
> replace the card with one that is PCI 2.x compliant ;-)

Yes, and not only for that reason 8-)

Tom

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