On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:51:51PM +0100, Vivien Chappelier wrote:
>
> > > > This tells the aic7xxx to use DMA safe memory for I/O.
> > >
> > > That seems totally inappropriate. The unchecked dma option is for
> > > ancient ISA DMA controllers that didnt do the 16Mb check. If you
> > > find you need it debug your pci remapper
> >
> > This is used when scaning for devices (drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c) . When
> > this flag is not set, the code uses memory from the stack (unsigned char
> > scsi_result0[256]; in scan_scsis) instead of kmallocating it DMA safe as
> > it should on non-coherent systems. Maybe this is the thing to change?
>
> Indeed, it is. I thought this one died ages ago.
Here is a patch to fix that then. It forces allocation of DMA safe
memory in any case. I've not looked at the PPC64 patch however.
regards,
Vivien Chappelier.
linux-scsi_scan.diff
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