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Date:      Mon, 01 Mar 1999 11:43:39 -0800
From:      Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
To:        se@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI Card Failures in 3.1 - FYI 
Message-ID:  <199903011943.LAA11285@boreas.isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:13:23 %2B0100." <19990227141323.A4953@dialup124.mi.uni-koeln.de> 

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Stefan Esser wrote:
>On 1999-02-26 10:55 -0500, Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> wrote:
>> Also, we dont call pci_map_port(), so I doubt that is the
>> problem. The mapping seems to work (when we map the
>> registers into memory we can read them and they have
>> the correct default values). the problem is that is cant
>> seem to dma to memory...its impossible to tell if it
>> can read however.
>
>You know about the bus-master enable bit in the command register ?
>There had been problems with cards doing bogus transfers if that 
>feature was enabled by default, so the BIOS may leave it OFF.
>
>You are responsible for setting it in your driver, after the chip
>has been reset/initialzed and can be assumed under control ;-)

That was my problem, too.  I don't know why I understood when you
said it, and not when Dennis said it.

I'll forward patches to Paul.

Thanks!

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Ted Faber                                                faber@isi.edu
USC/ISI Computer Scientist                   http://www.isi.edu/~faber
(310) 822-1511 x190      PGP Key: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkey.asc


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