Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Oct 2012 14:08:50 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: iwl3945: order 5 allocation during ifconfig up; vm problem? |
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Hi! On Fri 2012-10-05 10:37:00, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 11:07:13AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2012, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > > > > > So, can this problem be solved like on below patch, or I should rather > > > split firmware loading into chunks similar like was already iwlwifi did? > > Hmm, I looked at iwl3945 code and looks loading firmware in chunks is > nothing that can be easily done. 3945 bootstrap code expect that runtime > ucode will be placed in physically continue memory, and there are no > separate instructions for copy and for execute, just one to perform both > those actions. Maybe loading firmware in chunks can be done using > undocumented features of the device, but I'm eager to do this.
Just allocate memory during boot?
> Pavel, do you still can reproduce this problem on released 3.6 ?
It happened again yesterday on 3.6.0-rc6+. I don't think mm changed between -rc6 and final... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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