64-bit pci bus on a powermac g4
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From: Chas Williams <hidden>
Date: 2000-09-09 17:57:36
i am writing a driver for an atm adapter and i am seeing some strange problems. the card is 32/64 bit. it works fine in my 32-bit pci bus on my umax s900, but in the g4 it oops' with a trap 300 during operation. i understand this to be 'data access exception' or 'data storage exception'. a couple questions: . is the 64bit pci bus capability functional in the g4? (i gather it must be since my 64bit ati rage pro for the second monitor is working fine) . anyone else written a driver for a 64bit pci card in the g4's? . do i need to align my dma regions to 64bits? shouldnt the card be able transfer non-dma until it gets to a dma region? i suppose this depends on the bridge/card controller. the driver documentation is a bit lacking on this detail. it claims that tx buffers dont require special alignment but if you dont use dma, of course it doesnt. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/