Re: Dealing with buggy hardware (was: b44 and 4g4g)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

> > > + if(virt_to_bus(skb->data) + skb->len > B44_PCI_DMA_MAX) {
> > 
> > You can't use this non-portable interface, you have to:
> > 
> > 1) pci_map the data
> > 2) test the dma_addr_t returned
> Ok, fixed. Certainly not ideal, but should fix things for those with
> problems (ie. running the 4G4G patch) and work as before for everyone else.
>

This should hit machines with 2GB ram too, right?
Is it possible to find if it hits me? I get hard lockups on
2GB machine with b44, but they take ~5min.. few hours to
reproduce...
 
It seems to me like this should hit very quickly.
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