vmalloc on 2.4.x on ia64

Greetings. Is vmalloc() interface broken on any of 2.4.x kernel on ia64 ? I am trying to call vmalloc from the driver to allocate about 130kb of memory and it hangs the system. I am running 2.4.1 kernel with ia64 patch (I can find out the exact patch if needed) on LION. Let me know if more inform

hang in ioremap called from detect() entry point of scsi hba driver

Hi List, I am trying to call ioremap() from the detect() routine of the scsi hba driver to map the memory mapped and i/o mapped registers on the card. I have two HBAs supported by the driver. For the first card, everything works fine (including ioremap). Whereas for the second card, the iorem

kmod error

Greetings. I built a 2.4.0 kernel and installed th bzImage in boot, configured in lilo, etc. I also upgraded my modutils to 2.4.3. After that when I tried to boot from the new kernel, I am getting the following error message continuously. kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -l binfmt-464c, er

RE: Problems in 2.4 kernel

I think when you configure the kernel (make menuconfig) you did not make floppy driver part of the kernel. I also faced the same problem, and I fixed it by making the floppy driver part of the kernel. Let me know if this helps. -hiren > -Original Message- > From: Sajeev [mailto:[EMAIL

parallel mkfs on ia64 with 2.4.0

Hi All, I ran mkfs on more than 1 scsi disk partitions in parallel in background on ia64 Lion machine with linux kernel 2.4.0. And after a few seconds, the system became damn slow. I can swith between the virtual terminals. But I cannot login from other virtual terminals. Also, I cannot do anyt

accessing on-card ram/rom

Hi All, I have a PCI card which has on-card ram/rom which gets mapped into pci address space and there is a separate base register for this memory. Now the question is : can I access this on-card memory by converting the pci base address into the virtual address using bus_to_virt and adding the r

stripping symbols from modules

Hi All, Is there any way to strip symbols from modules .o files ? for example, fat.o has many symbols and when you run `file' command on fat.o - it says that is is not a stripped file. I tried running `strip' command on fat.o and then tried to run insmod on the stripped fat.o and then tried to

how to get DMA'able memory within 4GB on 64-bit machine

Hi List, Is there a way for a driver to ask kernel to give DMA'able memory within 4GB ? I read about pci_alloc_consistent(). But I could not find out whether that guarantees the DMA'able memory to be within 4GB or not. Is there any other kernel routine that I should call from Driver to get such a

failed kernel 2.4.2 build after applying the patch ac28

Hi All, I tried to build the 2.4.2 kernel after applying patch ac28 (patch-2.4.2-ac28) and it failed :-(( When it failed it gave the following message : *** Install db development libraries I thought kernel build should be independent of any userland libraries. Any thoughts ? TIA -hiren - To

RE: failed kernel 2.4.2 build after applying the patch ac28

>On 26 Jun 2001 15:35:09 -0600, MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1) wrote: >> I tried to build the 2.4.2 kernel after applying patch ac28 >> (patch-2.4.2-ac28) and it failed :-(( >> >> When it failed it gave the following message : >> >> *** Install db develo

(reposting) how to get DMA'able memory within 4GB on 64-bit machine

I posted this sometime back but I guess probably it got lost. Is there a way for a driver to ask kernel to give DMA'able memory within 4GB ? I read about pci_alloc_consistent(). But I could not find out whether that guarantees the DMA'able memory to be within 4GB or not. Is there any other kernel

RE: failed kernel 2.4.2 build after applying the patch ac28

then why the kernel build is failing ? -Original Message- From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: failed kernel 2.4.2 build after applying the patch ac28 > *** Install db development librar