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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, stable@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit	DMA	mapping"
Date: 07 Aug 2007 04:18:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73bqdkccjg.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B7A537.9020807@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> writes:
> 
>   1.) The ieee1394 subsystem is known to work on x86_64 with more than 4
> GB RAM, 

It's actually ~3+GB where memory above the 4GB barrier starts appearing.
In some extreme cases even for 2+GB. 

> so I gather that architecture code already sets a proper DMA
> mask for all those 32bit PCI OHCI-1394 implementations out there.

If you don't set a DMA mask then the default is always 4GB.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-07  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.Qn3Snqoik3hhnxcA6HqjGV0Yzck@ifi.uio.no>
2007-08-04 17:14 ` [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping" Robert Hancock
2007-08-04 17:30   ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-05  0:15     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-05  7:54       ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-05 22:04         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-06 13:51           ` Olaf Hering
2007-08-06 21:47             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-06 22:22               ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-06 22:25                 ` Robert Hancock
2007-08-06 22:32                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-06 22:35                     ` Robert Hancock
2007-08-06 22:59                       ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-06 22:48                   ` Stefan Richter
2007-08-07  2:18                     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-08-06 22:29                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-06 11:58         ` Olaf Hering
2007-08-06 21:43           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-06 22:05             ` [PATCH] powerpc: Fix initialization and usage of dma_mask Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-06 22:30               ` Olaf Hering
2007-08-04 16:39 [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping" Stefan Richter

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