On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 20:41 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On an iMac G5, the b43 driver is failing to initialise because trying to
> set the dma mask to 30-bit fails. Even though there's only 512MiB of RAM
> in the machine anyway:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514787
>
> We
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 14:14 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Do we care about that scenario? I think we might be able to "fix" it by
> setting the memory_limit when we allow pci_set_dma_mask() to succeed?
> That will effectively prevent the addition of memory that our crappy
> device can't reach, w
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 17:50 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 10:00 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > I'm not sure. Losing 16MiB on a machine which only has 512MiB anyway
> > doesn't seem ideal, and we'll want to make the no-iommu code DTRT
> > _anyway_, surely?
> >
> > S
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 10:00 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I'm not sure. Losing 16MiB on a machine which only has 512MiB anyway
> doesn't seem ideal, and we'll want to make the no-iommu code DTRT
> _anyway_, surely?
>
> So we might as well let the DART keep its existing logic (which is
> only
> to
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 18:00 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 08:54 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 08:25 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 20:41 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > > On an iMac G5, the b43 driver is
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 08:54 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 08:25 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 20:41 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On an iMac G5, the b43 driver is failing to initialise because trying to
> > > set the dma mask to 30-bit
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 08:25 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 20:41 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On an iMac G5, the b43 driver is failing to initialise because trying to
> > set the dma mask to 30-bit fails. Even though there's only 512MiB of RAM
> > in the machine a
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 20:41 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On an iMac G5, the b43 driver is failing to initialise because trying to
> set the dma mask to 30-bit fails. Even though there's only 512MiB of RAM
> in the machine anyway:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514787
>
> We
On an iMac G5, the b43 driver is failing to initialise because trying to
set the dma mask to 30-bit fails. Even though there's only 512MiB of RAM
in the machine anyway:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514787
We should probably let it succeed if the available RAM in the system
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