Yes, I believe that - otherwise, this problem would have been a crisis a LONG time ago...:-) But I do have some more questions in relationship to how things are mapped in your environment. I have a flat memory map (i.e.: the full 0x0 -- 0x1_0000_0000 is passed to the 32bit Linux kernel without any 'holes' and/or reserved areas). Does your Intel memory map have this same type of flat memory model (and thus allow use of the FULL lower 4Gig) - or does it reserve areas of lower 4Gig for devices and such - if not - where are these reserved areas - and how do the relate to the I/O memory map for the device? In other words, I would be very interested in seeing the memory map & the PCI memory mapping to see if any overlap/correspond to reserve areas of lower 4 Gig (in a linux 32bit mode)... Tom ________________________________ From: Mark Lord [mailto:liml@xxxxxx] Sent: Fri 11/23/2007 12:46 PM To: Morrison, Tom Cc: Robert Hancock; linux-kernel; ide; Jeff Garzik; Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3) Morrison, Tom wrote: > I am hopeful that the sata_mv has this bug (I proved that the > problem I was experiencing was due to the sata_mv driver > with 3.75Gig or more of memory)... > > I am on vacation for a week or more ...or I'd tell you today > if it did have this bug! .. Yeah, I kind of had your reports in mind when I asked that. :) On a related note, I now have lots of Marvell (sata_mv) hardware here, and an Intel CPU/chipset box with physical RAM above the 4GB boundary. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
