Re: [PATCH] zorro: Fix address space collision message with RAM expansion boards

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Date: Wed Aug 26 2020 - 07:39:27 EST


On 8/26/20 1:28 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:24 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> When booting Linux on an Amiga with BigRAMPlus Zorro expansion board:
>>
>> zorro: Address space collision on device Zorro device 12128600 (Individual Computers) [??? 0x50000000-]
>>
>> This happens because the address space occupied by the BigRAMPlus Zorro
>> device is already in use, as it is part of system RAM. Hence the
>> message is harmless.
>>
>> Zorro memory expansion boards have the ERTF_MEMLIST flag set, which
>> tells AmigaOS to link the board's RAM into the free memory list. While
>> we could skip registering the board resource if this flag is set, that
>> may cause issues with Zorro II RAM excluded in a memfile.
>>
>> Hence fix the issue by just ignoring the error if ERTF_MEMLIST is set.
>>
>> Reported-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied, and queued in the m68k for-v5.10 branch.

Oh, that reminds me. I should dig out the Big-RAM-Plus again. I still haven't
found it after my last move but I know where to find it (hopefully ;-)).

Adrian

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