W dniu 1 czerwca 2011 01:29 użytkownik Chris Vine
<[email protected]> napisał:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011 09:22:32 +0200
> Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I believe I've grabbed e-mails of all the people reporting DMA errors
>> on b43/bcm43xx mailing list.
>>
>> Short remind of the problem. When using b43 and LP-PHY card on some
>> specific machines you got:
>> b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal DMA error: 0x00000800, 0x00000000, 0x00000000,
>> 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
>> b43-phy0: Controller RESET (DMA error) ...
>>
>> The workaround was to use PIO instead of DMA, or "modprobe wl &&
>> rmmod wl".
>>
>> I believe we've fixed that errors in Linux 3.0-rc1. Can you give it a
>> chance and report back?
>
> This deals with the fatal DMA errors on my machine.  Well done.

Wohoo, that's great, thank you for info!


> However, fixing this bug reveals something else.  After about 2 hours of
> streaming on MLB.TV I got this, apparently at random (but this is not a
> hard error: by disassociating from the AP and reassociating, the rest of
> the game played fine, and there was no need to load or unload modules):
>
> b43-phy0 debug: TX-status contains invalid cookie: 0x0DCE
> b43-phy0 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 74, but 
> got 76

This is known to happen when there is some high traffic happening.
Please use "b43 error under heavy load" thread to continue discussion
on this issue.

-- 
Rafał

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