Stephen, Debian received this bug report on sky2:
Dale Schroeder wrote: > No matter what brand, size, or speed of ddr2 RAM I try, I cannot > successfully boot when the installed memory is greater than 2GB. > The system is an Acer Aspire M1100 with the most recent BIOS. I have > tried with kernels 2.6.32-5 and 2.6.30-8squeeze1. > > During the boot sequence, sky2 fails with a 0x2010 pci error; then > several programs slowly load until dmsg appears, at which time the > screen fills with hexadecimal errors similar to those in this debian bug > thread: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457967 > > Disabling the network interface in the BIOS allows bootup to finish, > although some programs fail to load due to the missing network connection. > Decreasing the RAM to 2GB returns booting to normal. > > I've seen numerous references to bugs with this network hardware and the > amd64 kernel, but none related to adding extra memory. I am unaware as > to how I can capture the errors, since I cannot finish the boot process > when the errors happen. Further information: > I tested another network card, a Netgear GA311 which uses the r8169 driver. > With this card, all 4GB of memory is recognized and the system > successfully boots. > This would seem to rule out the BIOS and points to sky2 on the Marvell > m/b chip > being my problem. > > Obviously, the new card doesn't resolve the bug, but it does solve my > problem. Does this sound like a plausible symptom of the bugs fixed by: f6815077e75c5b7f55b56fc3788e328514d4e72a sky2: fix transmit DMA map leakage 3fbd9187d004149fb8a98c9cb51ef9f4a4f66aca sky2: hand receive DMA mapping failures In any case, are the above suitable for 2.6.32-stable (once merged by Linus)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up.
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