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From: Uli Luckas <u.luckas@road.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "pHilipp Zabel" <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>,
	"Marek Vasut" <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	drzeus-mmc@drzeus.cx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix misalignment in pxamci
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:23:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807281823.25302.u.luckas@road.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74d0deb30807050121n38c44dfaoa843fe8a0b581d01@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday, 5. July 2008, pHilipp Zabel wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Philipp Zabel finally made the pxamci issue clear. It turned out, that
> > pxamci needs the DMA destination address to be aligned to 8 bytes. In
> > some cases it happened, that the address was aligned to 4 bytes causing
> > controller to incorrectly transfer data (and resulting into error like
> > "mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1"). The following patch allows
> > to debug this issue and moreover fixes it by moving one 4 byte entry of
> > mmc_card structure, aligning the DMA destination back to 8 bytes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
>
> We can enable byte aligned transfers on the DMA controller. This is
> what I came up with yesterday:
> (sorry for wrapped lines - the proper patch should probably be a
> combination of both
> warning/DALGN handling and and moving something in mmc_card around).
>
Hi Philipp,
this driver is not only for pxa27x but for pxa25x as well and pxa25x can't 
handle unaligned DMA.
Shouldn't Marek Vasut's patch be included for the PXA25x case?

regards,
Uli


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-05  0:19 [PATCH] fix misalignment in pxamci Marek Vasut
2008-07-05  8:21 ` pHilipp Zabel
2008-07-28 16:23   ` Uli Luckas [this message]
2008-07-29  6:30     ` pHilipp Zabel
2008-07-29  7:55       ` Marek Vasut
2008-07-29 11:09       ` Pierre Ossman

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