Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:26:55 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.43 alpha broken with >2g of ram |
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 11:54:44PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Could you explain me how can 2.3.43 work? How do you do PCI-DMA over 2giga > of ram on the page cache or on the buffer cache or in whatever else DMA > with pci driver that is not yet using the new pci mmu code like some > network driver is just doing?
If the machine uses drivers that have not been converted, it doesn't work at all. I disabled that code specifically so that Pete Rival *could* try a machine with all drivers converted.
> I'll port the _real_ 2T support I did in 2.2.x to the latest 2.3.x ASAP > (it was just in my TODO list).
If you like. I wouldn't bother. We've got most of the interesting drivers converted already.
r~
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