[linux-dvb] Re: linux-2.6.0-test8 with dvb-kernel crashes

[Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>]

Hello Peter,

> I should have RTFS a bit better. It turns out that enabling High Memory
> Support in the kernel config caused this.
Yes.

> This begs the question, why is the saa7146 code incompatible with high
> memory set to 4GB?
I haven't investigated this yet. Fact is that 32bit PCI cards can only 
address 4Gb address space, perhaps enabling high memory support marks 
lower pages as high memory, too, and then my code crashes. But this is 
just a wild guess.

> Cheers,
>    Peter.
If you don't have high memory, don't enable it. ;-)

CU
Michael.



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