kernel panic with ivtv on amd64, firmware loading and test_ioctl work fine!
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri May 14 17:38:42 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 17:26, Sven Boeckelmann wrote:
> hi im trying to run ivtv on an amd64-
>
> ok, the firmware loading has been fixed.
> used : http://kmos.org/~ckennedy/ivtv/ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck65f.tgz
> to load ivtv successfully.
>
> but the io code does not seem to be 64bit safe.
>
> when accessing the device the kernel crashes:
> when executing function ivtv_sched_DMA
>
> There must be someone out there who is able to check if this
> is 64bit safe .. !
It isn't. It's casting addresses around as u32's which
is totally wrong. On a 64bit machine, this will chop
the upper 32 bits off a pointer.
Dave
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