Re: aic79xx - wrong max memory at driver init

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On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 11:37 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Frederic TEMPORELLI wrote:
> > Hello Hannes,
> > 
> > Aic79xx driver for Adaptec 39320 supports 64-bit addressing, but the
> > initialization code of the driver is wrong: it tests the available
> > memory size instead of testing the maximum available memory address.
> > This is necessary to support servers that provides 1 Terabyte of
> > physical memory space addressing.
> > 
> > Attached is the suggested patch (made against 2.6.17, but 2.6.19 is
> > still using the available memory size instead of using the max memory
> > address) to solve this issue.

Actually, this driver shouldn't be hacking around at all with either the
memory functions or blk_max_pfn, it should be using the provided api,
which is dma_get_required_mask()

James


> > Signed-off-by: xavier.bru@xxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: frederic.temporelli@xxxxxxxx
> > 
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> 

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