Re: [PATCH] ARM: shmobile: set proper DMA masks for Ether devices

[Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>]

Hello.

On 12-02-2014 18:28, Ben Dooks wrote:

>>>> Ether MAC is a DMA-capable device and so should have 'dev.dma_mask' and
>>>> 'dev.coherent_dma_mask' fields set properly, to reflect 32-bit DMA
>>>> addressing
>>>> ability.  Currently, the code works without DMA masks but in the
>>>> future, when
>>>> support for NETIF_F_HIGHDMA & NETIF_F_SG would be added to the
>>>> 'sh_eth' driver,
>>>> the DMA masks should start to matter...

>>>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>

>>> Hi, do you have a git branch available with all the changes for getting
>>> ethernet working on rcar please?

>>     Depends on whether you want it working via DT or mere platform
>> devices. If the second, it's 3.14-rc1. If DT, I don't have a branch,
>> only several patches to apply atop of the current 'renesas.git' repo's
>> 'devel' branch that I've posted last week (note that only R8A779x is
>> currently supported by these patches and NFS boot timeout is still an
>> issue with them).

> ok, I have a slightly earlier version which seems to work with nfs
> boot for me.

    There's no "slightly earlier version" (unless you mean DT support for 
BOCK-W posted months ago). Issue with NFS is not fatal, it boots fine, just 
somewhat slow.

WBR, Sergei