Excluding first megabyte of memory
Dominik Brodowski
linux at brodo.de
Fri Jun 20 23:31:01 BST 2003
> Fortunately, I found a workaround. Everything is working fine if I
> comment out this line in /etc/pcmcia/config:
>
> include memory 0xc0000-0xfffff
>
> The driver gets requests to allocate memory at 0xc8000, 0xdc000 and
> 0xe0000. It hangs soon after the memory window is allocated at 0xe0000.
>
> It's interesting that the TI bridge using yenta module cannot use that
> region either, but it doesn't hang:
>
> cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0fffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xfffff
This is where (at least on my system the Video ROM and System ROM resides
-- and that's properly allocated in /proc/iomem, so rsrc_mgr.c excludes
it... Might it be that your plx9052 module doesn't check it the same way?
> 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
> 000cc000-000d97ff : Extension ROM
> 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
See for yourself, these resources aren't available on your system, either...
Dominik
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