[Dri-devel] PPC Lockup (ati-pcigart-branch)

[Takashi Oe]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Dan Malek wrote:

> > .....  I
> > wonder why planb works at all....
>
> Probably because no one stumbles across the memory it is trashing?
> Currently, bad_thing_will_happen = vmalloc + virt_to_bus + dma.
> It could be with the right memory size, modulo addressing, memory
> controller configuration, timing of the vmalloc, it just may
> accidently work.  If this is the case, I would be out buying
> lottery tickets........

Ok, my apologies, planb doesn't use vmalloc at all these days.  So, there
is no problem of that kind.  (In the beginning, it had vmalloc with a lot
of problems as I recall now.)


Takashi Oe


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