On 08/23/2010 10:59 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Hi, > > I see that the aha152x driver for pcmcia is marked as unsupported on > 64bit. But I also see a patch [1] which removes the restriction based on > user's testing in bugzilla [2]. > > Is there a reason why it would have to be marked as !64BIT? I'm asking > because there is an opensuse user with this card who updated to 64-bit > distro and lost this driver thereafter. > > [1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-scsi/2010/3/6/6832393 > [2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14333 > > thanks, If memory serves correctly, it might be that you need more then 4 Gbyte of memory installed to exercise the bug, something about IO bouncing addresses > 4G. But don't believe me, I might be imagining things ;-) Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
