> > You said before that we should be fine allocating the DMA rings below
> > 1GB and then doing arbitrary DMA buffers. If this is the case, then imho
> > we should just do that, the six DMA rings or whatever we should be able
> > to fit into low memory.
> 
> No it isn't right. When I booted with a mem=512M option, the DMA error still 
> occurred as long as I
> didn't allocate the ring buffer with the GFP_DMA flag. Allocating below the 1 
> GB boundary is not
> sufficient.

> It may be even worse. They seem to have made this device look like an ISA 
> device and force the ring
> buffer to below the 16 MB boundary.

Hmm. No, that definitely doesn't make sense. There must be something
else going wrong like bad windowing in the PCI(e) core.

johannes

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