linux 2.6 pcmcia power issues

[Madhav Diwan]

 I have shared memory for the video card which reduces the physical
memory available to the system .. the chip itself is 512 megs.

if i set the reserve that high wont i interfere with the video memory?
I do not even know if i could since the memory the system sees is only
480 megs.. i'll give it a try though.


Madhav



On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 16:38 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 11:01:48AM -0500, Madhav Diwan wrote:
> > I agree that it looks like a resource problem.
> 
> How much memory do you really have in the machine?  0x1e000000 is an
> odd top of memory value - that's 480MB.  I suspect you actually have
> 512MB, in which case you want to do:
> 
> 	reserve=0x1e000000,0x02000000
> 
> to force resource allocations to be above the RAM.
> 
> > interestingly  if i compile only the 16 bit potion of pcmcia  and dont
> > compile yenta or cardbius .. it gives no errors.. so whats the deal
> > here? It looks like  32 bit cardmus memmory managemnet needs to be
> > reviewed.
> 
> If the above works, the cardbus resource management is working just fine.
> What isn't working is that the kernel doesn't have a complete picture
> about what areas of system memory are actually allocated and in use for
> other devices.
> 
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Madhav Diwan <madhav at diwancomputing.com>