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Date:      Mon, 08 Mar 1999 01:11:30 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Charles Henrich <henrich@flnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Erorr: isa_dmainit(2, 1024) failed 
Message-ID:  <199903080911.BAA05661@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Mar 1999 00:51:25 PST." <19990308005125.10555@orbit.flnet.com> 

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> During startup on my FreeBSD box (a dual proc 1GB system) I see:
> 
> isa_dmainit(2, 1024) failed                                               
> 
> And (perhaps) coincidentally any access to the ISA sound card causes the
> machine to panic with an isa page map missing.  Does anyone out there have any
> ideas whats causing this, and what a solution might be?  Thanks!

You have too much memory.  8)

Seriously, by the time the ISA code gets a chance to allocate memory, 
all the physically dma-able-to memory is gone for other uses.

This is basically a bug in the way kernel memory is handed out.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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