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

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Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 13:28:48 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
        Stefan Reinauer <stefan.k.reinauer@...il.com>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zorro: Fix address space collision message with RAM
 expansion boards

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:24 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> 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@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

Applied, and queued in the m68k for-v5.10 branch.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


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