Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 04 Nov 2001 10:54:12 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: SYM-2 patches against latest kernels available |
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Gérard Roudier wrote: > The patch against linux-2.4.13 has been sent to Alan Cox for inclusion in > newer stable kernels. Alan wants to test it on his machines which is a > good thing. Anyway, those patches just add the new driver version to > kernel tree and leave stock sym53c8xx and ncr53c8xx in place.
Are the older sym/ncr drivers going away in 2.5?
> Any report, especially on large memory machines using 64 bit DMA (2.4 > kernels + PCI DAC capable controllers only), is welcome. I can't test 64 > bit DMA, since my fatest machine has only 512 MB of memory. > > To configure the driver, you must select "SYM53C8XX version 2 driver" from > kernel config. For large memory machines, a new "DMA addressing mode" > option is to be configured as follows (help texts have been added to > Configure.help): > > Value 0: 32 bit DMA addressing > Value 1: 40 bit DMA addressing (upper 24 bytes set to zero) > Value 2: 64 bit DMA addressing limited to 16 segments of 4 GB (64 GB) max.
Are you using the new pci64 API under 2.4.x?
Thanks,
Jeff
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