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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: khc@pm.waw.pl
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, c.aeschlimann@acn-group.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix IXP4xx coherent allocations
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:57:40 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130323.195740.2108147521543354261.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3obe9lxil.fsf@intrepid.localdomain>

From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:35:46 +0100

> ARM core code currently requires coherent DMA mask to be set. Make sure
> we limit PCI devices to 64 MiB while allowing on-chip devices to access
> the whole 4 GiB address space.
> 
> This fixes a v3.7+ regression which broke IXP4xx built-in network devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>

This requirement is not reasonable.

The DMA API documentation clearly states what the default must be,
and what drivers are guarenteed will be the default.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-23 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-23 19:35 [PATCH] Fix IXP4xx coherent allocations Krzysztof Halasa
2013-03-23 23:57 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-03-24 19:11   ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-24 21:15     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2013-03-30 13:29       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-03-30 14:22         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2013-03-30 15:31           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-04-01 20:17             ` Krzysztof Halasa
2013-04-02  0:40               ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-30 13:18   ` Krzysztof Halasa

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