Are the older sym/ncr drivers going away in 2.5?
> Any report, especially on large memory machines using 64 bit DMA (2.4
> kernels + PCI DAC capable controllers only), is welcome. I can't test 64
> bit DMA, since my fatest machine has only 512 MB of memory.
>
> To configure the driver, you must select "SYM53C8XX version 2 driver" from
> kernel config. For large memory machines, a new "DMA addressing mode"
> option is to be configured as follows (help texts have been added to
> Configure.help):
>
> Value 0: 32 bit DMA addressing
> Value 1: 40 bit DMA addressing (upper 24 bytes set to zero)
> Value 2: 64 bit DMA addressing limited to 16 segments of 4 GB (64 GB) max.
Are you using the new pci64 API under 2.4.x?
Thanks,
Jeff
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