[parisc-linux] C180 not booting Sarge kernel

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:09:30PM -0800, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> While I have somebody's attention: I have some EISA 3c597's that I'd
> like to use in this machine. I carefully compile the kernel module with
> the same parameters and install it and all I ever get is:
> 
> ryoko:~# modprobe 3c59x
> 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> 3c59x: 3Com EISA 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0x1000. Vers LK1.1.16
> 
> ccio-dma.c:638: Assertion dev failed!
> Kernel panic: dev
> 
> Message from syslogd@ryoko at  Thu Nov 21 09:47:32 2002 ...
> ryoko kernel: Kernel panic: dev

Yeah, so somebody needs to write the code that allows EISA devices to
do DMA back to the host ... I have the specs here, maybe I should write
them up and somebody else can write the code?

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