From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] skge: limit DMA to 32 bit
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:34:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100922073400.GA9942@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100921080253.3d89d60a@nehalam>
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 08:02:53AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Is 32bit DMA limit for every skge device acceptable patch?
>
> No. The device does support 64 bit DMA, the problem is a crap implementation
> of the device the motherboard. Therefore a PCI quirk or module parameter
> is a better solution.
Ok, I will use dmi_check_system() to recognize broken board and limit DMA
address space when detected.
Thanks
Stanislaw
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-22 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-21 7:15 [RFC] skge: limit DMA to 32 bit Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-09-21 15:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-09-22 7:34 ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
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