Bug 205201 - Booting halts if Dawicontrol DC-2976 UW SCSI board installed, unless RAM size limited to 3500M

[Christian Zigotzky]

On 21 November 2019 at 08:29 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 08:06:05AM +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>> /*
>>   *  DMA addressing mode.
>>   *
>>   *  0 : 32 bit addressing for all chips.
>>   *  1 : 40 bit addressing when supported by chip.
>>   *  2 : 64 bit addressing when supported by chip,
>>   *      limited to 16 segments of 4 GB -> 64 GB max.
>>   */
>> #define   SYM_CONF_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE
>>
>> Cyrus config:
>>
>> CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1
>>
>> I will configure “0 : 32 bit addressing for all chips” for the RC8. Maybe this is the solution.
> 0 means you are going to do bounce buffering a lot, which seems
> generally like a bad idea.
>
> But why are we talking about the sym53c8xx driver now?  The last issue
> you reported was about video4linux allocations.
>
Both drivers have the same problem. They don't work if we have more than 
3.5GB RAM. I try to find a solution until your have a good solution. I 
have already a solution for V4L but I still need one for the sym53c8xx 
driver.