Re: [Dri-devel] PPC Lockup (ati-pcigart-branch)

On 1/22/01 6:24 PM, Dan Malek wrote:

The PowerPC port, except for a couple of processors (4xx and 8xx again)
could never use virt_to_phys on any dynamically allocated (vmalloc()'ed)
space.  All of the drivers/devices that used these macros were using
ioremapped() or static buffers.  Perhaps the PCI mapping functions are
implementing some of this, and I need to take a look.

Is it really true that virt_to_phys on vmalloc'd memory is broken 6xx?  I
wonder why planb works at all....


Takashi Oe


** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/