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Subject: Re: Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885) with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE
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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, James R. Van Artsalen wrote:

> I think drivers had to be changed for the bounce buffer changes in 5.3. 
> Perhaps there is a bug in the bge(4) change?  Is anyone using a bge(4) NIC 
> with more than 4GB of RAM?

Despite my best efforts not to, since the thing has it's own share of 
problems. bge(4) was working fine with 8GB _before_ the busdma fixes, so I
think you can safely rule it out. I don't think you get much better testing
than PXE+nfsroot.

-ksaihr