On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Mark Lumsden <[email protected]> wrote: > The bce(4) driver was removed from i386 GENERIC by Theo a few months ago > because > it can only access 1GB ram. My Dell Latitude D520 has 2GB RAM and sure enough > the > driver did random things when I tried to use it back then. Ive looked at > NetBSD > and they have an extra bus_dmatag_subregion() function for restricting the > memory range the driver accesses. Should this be implemented for OpenBSD?
I believe the consensus was that we should not pollute the source tree to support one particular extra retarded device. Rather, the driver for that device is responsible for satisfying its strange needs.
