[Fwd: reduce ioremap memory size for Adaptec I2O controllers]

[Warren Togami]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Dave wrote:
> 
>>right), only some of the shared memory space need be mapped into system 
>>memory, with the rest available for use by other controllers? Is there any 
>>way to query or set this range before the messaging layer is established? 
>>(seems rather like a chicken and egg situation to me)
> 
> 
> The problem is there is no way to find out. Markus latest changes hardcode
> rules for the DPT controllers which seem to be the ones with the big
> memory options so that should cure it for now
> 
> 

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@414b32fbUqjVDwQAKnS1v7QLpVcyoQ?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-4d
Appears that the patch Alan mentioned has reached the upstream kernel 
yesterday.  Hopefully the test3 kernel will incorporate this.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com