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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Rune Torgersen <runet@innovsys.com>
Cc: Mike Winter <mike.winter@vecimanetworks.com>,
	linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: PCI DMA Problems With 82xx?
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:52:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4858322C.5030402@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DCEAAC0833DD314AB0B58112AD99B93B048F2E21@ismail.innsys.innovsys.com>

Rune Torgersen wrote:
> linuxppc-embedded-bounces+runet=innovsys.com@ozlabs.org wrote:
>> Mike Winter wrote:
>>> We are developing with an 8248-based platform, and we have a vendor
>>> telling us that the PCI hardware is unreliable on this CPU family, in
>>> particular the DMA functionality.  A quick search of this list
>>> doesn't turn up any horror stories, although the processor does have
>>> some PCI errata listed.  Does anybody have any practical experience
>>> using PCI on the 8248 or similar that they can share with me?  
>>> Thanks. 
> 
> We're using all four PCI DMA's on 8265 and 8280 CPU's.

Hmm, did he mean bus-mastering from PCI devices, or the DMA block which 
is documented as part of PCI on older chips, but really has nothing to 
do with it that I can figure out?

-Scott

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-17 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-17 19:32 PCI DMA Problems With 82xx? Mike Winter
2008-06-17 21:29 ` Scott Wood
2008-06-17 21:49   ` Rune Torgersen
2008-06-17 21:51     ` Rune Torgersen
2008-06-17 21:52     ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-06-18 13:32   ` Anybody have an mpc5200b mscan linux driver under 2.6.24, ARCH=powerpc or equiv? Mike Timmons
2008-06-18 13:45     ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-06-18 14:02       ` Mike Timmons
2008-06-18 14:18         ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-06-18 16:16           ` Mike Timmons
2008-06-19 10:38         ` Daniel Schnell

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