Re: Kernel panic on amd64Netbsd 4.0
Stephen Borrill <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:04:41 +0100 (BST)
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 02:46:06PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: >>> at last for i386; never tested it on amd64. >> >> I use >> >> options PHYSMEM_MAX_ADDR=4096 >> >> on my amd64 with k8GB and it avoids numerous random crashed that I'd >> been having. >> >> I was told at one point that there was a problem with bounce buffers >> over the 4GB limit, but then was told that that problem didn't exist. >> So, I'm not sure what the actual problem is, but limiting to 4GB does >> avoid the crashing. > > There are no general issues with bounce buffers, AFAIK. But there > may be issues with individual drivers not doing the bus_dma(9) > thing properly. Are there any known guilty drivers to be either avoided or fixed? -- Stephen