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SubjectRe: 2.1.110 and newer, SB AWE64
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > No. Im still trying to find a pattern to people with this problem beyond
> > > 2.0.x works 2.1.x doesnt.
> >
> > Well it looks like a simple dead lock to me..
>
> If it was a simple deadlock it wouldnt explain why it only hits people
> with VIA chipsets, or why a simple DOS demo of the VIA problem exists.
>
> The non VIA reports (SMP ones) may be deadlocks or DMA programming clashes,
> I've just not found any yet either
>
>
> Alan

Hmm.. To you think it would sensible for me to try to rigup a perl script
that sticks a spinlock around every dma access? Where would I define the
lock for it to be visible throught the entire kernel?


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