If someone sends me a laptop containing a bce(4) chip, I will write the code for it.
>The driver itself could happily allocate it's own little crappy bounce >buffer. > >On 1 February 2011 11:32, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.
