We really should fix that in the base kernel code. To be clear though, this configuration will always fail with 32-bit kernels. I am surprised that bioses are doing this by default now given that there are still a lot of 32-bit OSes around.
On Thursday, March 7, 2013, Randy S wrote: > Thank you for the explanation. > I found it a bit strange that the same nic works in an older version of > OI(a5) but with a different mainboard (Tyan) and a different Bios. > Since I don't know if there are any diffs in kernel and or this driver > between these two os versions, I didn't really know where to start looking > in this case exept for the warning messages already mentioned. > > So I hope that you are right. > > Will let you know.. > > Randy > > > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 16:25:41 -0800 > > From: [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > > To: [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > > CC: [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > > Subject: Re: [discuss] use of 10Gb nic > > > > On 3/6/13 4:21 PM, Randy S wrote: > > > > > > Thank you for the suggestion. I will try tomorrow. > > > > To be clear, the problem here is that the bios has chosen a range of > > addresses for your physical nic above the 4 GB address space. illumos > > does not at this time support PCI devices with addresses above that. The > > bios has put that card in that upper range which causes us to fail to > > map the PCI registers. The hint to this is the warning about prefetch. > > > > Robert > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > illumos-discuss > > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/24137936-6c403f99 > > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > *illumos-discuss* | > Archives<https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/22003744-9012f59c> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
