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Subject: Re: Bug 205201 - Booting halts if Dawicontrol DC-2976 UW SCSI board installed, unless RAM size limited to 3500M
From:   Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
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Date:   Wed, 4 Dec 2019 13:22:01 +0100
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To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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I think we have to wait to Roland=E2=80=99s test results with his SCSI PCI c=
ard.

Christian

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> On 4. Dec 2019, at 09:56, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>=20
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 08:56:25AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 05:40:26PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 12:26:38PM +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>>> Hello Christoph,
>>>>=20
>>>> The PCI TV card works with your patch! I was able to patch your Git ker=
nel=20
>>>> with the patch above.
>>>>=20
>>>> I haven't found any error messages in the dmesg yet.
>>>=20
>>> Thanks.  Unfortunately this is a bit of a hack as we need to set
>>> the mask based on runtime information like the magic FSL PCIe window.
>>> Let me try to draft something better up, and thanks already for testing
>>> this one!
>>=20
>> Maybe we'll simply force bottom up allocation before calling
>> swiotlb_init()? Anyway, it's the last memblock allocation.
>=20
> So I think we should go with this fix (plus a source code comment) for
> now.  Revamping the whole memory initialization is going to take a
> while, and this fix also is easily backportable.