> It appears that I have found either a hardware error with my copy of that 
> card, or there is an error
> in the ucode13 firmware. 

FWIW, the firmware is hardly involved in DMA so that's extremely
unlikely.

> Between 2.6.24-rc2 and -rc3, code that resulted in the Descriptor Address
> Rings having low addresses was removed. At that point, my card failed with a 
> DMA error. When the
> ring buffer is forced to a low address by requesting it with the GFP_DMA 
> flag, then the card works.
> Note that the data buffers for DMA are still at high addresses - only the 
> ring buffer is low.

Maybe the card can't handle high addresses for the buffers or we're
doing something wrong with the address (extension) here?

johannes

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