Re: 2.3.43 alpha broken with >2g of ram

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:50:23 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, David S. Miller wrote:

>I am trying to tell you that, especially since you aparently have

You didn't told me where I am wrong.

I'll rephrase in another way: why do you want that updating a driver that
uses PCI-DMA is a bugfix for an alpha with >2g of RAM, while it could be
an improvement-work that could be done in background and that if missing
wouldn't impact stability of 2.4.0?

>About one of your other questions, on the Alpha systems which lack
>a dynamic PCI dma remapping facility, they are limited to 2GB or less
>of ram.

Thanks for the info.

Andrea

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