[ros-dev] dma problem

Filip Navara xnavara at volny.cz
Mon Aug 22 10:48:44 CEST 2005


Hartmut Birr wrote:

>Hi,
>
>it seems that the routines for allocating a dma adapter object are
>broken. For a pci cards, the channel is always -1. The adapter object is
>stored at HalpEisaAdapter[-1]. It does overwrite something. This adapter
>object is used for all pci cards (scsi controller, network cards, ...).
>Usually every pci card must have its own adapter object.
>
>- Hartmut
>
It took me little longer than I expected, but the DMA patch is in SVN 
(revision 17470) now. I tested it with several bus-master devices (AMD 
PCNET network card, Buslogic 958 SCSI controller, ES1370 sound card) and 
one slave DMA device (SB16) and haven't found any regressions or new bugs.

- Filip


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