On 09/07/10 14:41, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 09/07/10 14:12, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> On Monday 30 August 2010 07:13:17 Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>> 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. >> >> If the machine is using SWIOTLB, then the bounce buffer would be activated. By >> default if your machine has more than 4GB compiled under x86_64 the SWIOTLB >> is turned on - but if you have an Intel/AMD IOMMU it gets turned off. Which >> is OK as the Intel/AMD IOMMUs would handle the 4GB restricted devices. So as >> long as the driver has pci_dma_mask_set. >> >> Looking at the git gui blame tool history, the reason that was added was >> for 'allow drivers to be built non-modular'. > > 023ae619 (Robert P. J. Day 2007-03-26 16:06:45 -0400 14) depends on !64BIT > > That commit just removed the "depends on m" part: > > - depends on m && !64BIT > + depends on !64BIT > > >> So, does this driver build if you make it non-modular? > > It shouldn't since it still depends on !64BIT. > > I expect someone thought or had evidence that the driver was not 64-bit clean. > > Is the bitkeeper kernel repo still visible somewhere? > Looks like we would need to look at it for patch history that far back. > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/?PAGE=cset&REV=3fe0bc41KO89ooP68UcrHEMVVAfDnw but it doesn't quite make sense to me. Sure, no ISA on x86_64, but that does not mean no PCMCIA on x86_64. -- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- 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
