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Date:      Fri, 30 May 1997 02:33:30 +0900
From:      Kenjiro Cho <kjc@csl.sony.co.jp>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Chuck Cranor <chuck@maria.wustl.edu>
Subject:   misaligned access to EDO RAM
Message-ID:  <199705291733.CAA20576@hotaka.csl.sony.co.jp>

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Does anyone know if it is OK to perform misaligned-burst-access to EDO 
RAM?

The DMA unit of an ENI ATM PCI card seems to lock up when it performs
misaligned-burst-access crossing 1KB boundary. 
(e.g. 64-byte-burst from 0xf02663c4 but no problem with 512B boundary
e.g. from 0xf02661c4)

It happens with a machine with ECC EDO DIMM (dell optiplex GXpro).
The lockup doesn't occur with other machines with fastpage DRAM
(all P6-200s with Natoma).

I suspect the 1K boundary comes from the EDO internal structure, but
I'm not sure if the specs (EDO, Natoma, PCI) allow to do that.

Any idea?  Am I missing something?

--kj



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