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Re: Kernel panic on Intel based Mac with more than 2GB of memory



I'd guess the official party line is that this is fine, provided you don't mind running like a dead stoat. If performance isn't required then by all means map every single I/O into the kernel's address space.

Alternatively we can try to find out why you had problems with IODMACommand and fix that.

Godfrey

On 12/10/2006, at 18:48 , Gerald Heinig wrote:

Hi Drew, Chris,

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:19 -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
Chris Sarcone writes:
You should be using IODMACommand. It works across 32-bit and 64-bit

This is weird. I've just converted a driver that was using IODMACommand
to use IOMemoryMap with MemMap->getPhysicalAddress() and
->getVirtualAddress.
The original driver with IODMACommand worked OK on Intel systems
(MacBook Pro) up to and including 10.4.5, but NOT on 10.4.8. On a
PowerPC G5, the IODMACommand-ised driver worked OK up to 10.4.7 but
failed to load on 10.4.8.


After converting the driver to use the MemMap scheme above, both Intel
and PowerPC versions worked fine on 10.4.5 and 10.4.8. I have yet to
test on 10.4.2.

What's the official party line on this? Are we _definitely_ supposed to
use IODMACommand on 10.4.8?


NB. My driver does NOT use MemoryCursors any more.

Sorry to interrupt your discussion, but Chris' comment above had me
confused...

Cheers,
Gerald


Eeek.

Where is IODMACommand documented?  Are network drivers still supposed
to use IOMbufMemoryCursor?  Is there a technote or anything about
this?  Example code?

Drew

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References: 
 >RE: Kernel panic on Intel based Mac with more than 2GB of memory (From: "Dave Canfield" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Kernel panic on Intel based Mac with more than 2GB of memory (From: Chris Sarcone <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Kernel panic on Intel based Mac with more than 2GB of memory (From: Andrew Gallatin <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Kernel panic on Intel based Mac with more than 2GB of memory (From: Gerald Heinig <email@hidden>)



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