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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:45:24 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
To:        richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lnc adaptor doesn't work in 3.1-19990407-STABLE
Message-ID:  <199904142145.WAA00687@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199904141426.PAA09032@stevenson.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> (message from Richard Tobin on Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:26:59 %2B0100 (BST))

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Richard Tobin wrote:
>I wrote:

>> My "PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter" has stopped working between 3.1-RELEASE
>> and 3.1-19990407-STABLE.

>Well I looked more closely and this appears to just be because the
>buffer memory is being allocated above 16MB, and the driver only
>provides 24 bits of address to the adaptor.

I'm pretty sure I have used it with the buffer well above 16MB.

>Is it easy to make the driver use bounce buffers?

You have a PCI card, it doesn't need bounce buffers.

>A better alternative for those variants of the Am79* that support it
>seems to be to put them in a mode that accepts 32 bit addresses, but
>that would require more work.

It should work fine as it is.

>Incidentally, what changed between 3.1-RELEASE and 3.1-19990407-STABLE
>that makes the memory be allocated above 16MB?

Did you try backing out the last change to sys/pci/pcisupport.c ?

I'll take a look at it when my 3.1 CD arrives, hopefully next week.

Robert


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