From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Graham Gower <graham.gower@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skge: Add DMA mask quirk for Marvell 88E8001 on ASUS P5NSLI motherboard
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:55:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121008095517.58f86ccc@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349715275-12730-1-git-send-email-jan.ceuleers@computer.org>
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 18:54:35 +0200
Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org> wrote:
> From: Graham Gower <graham.gower@gmail.com>
>
> Marvell 88E8001 on an ASUS P5NSLI motherboard is unable to send/receive
> packets on a system with >4gb ram unless a 32bit DMA mask is used.
>
> This issue has been around for years and a fix was sent 3.5 years ago, but
> there was some debate as to whether it should instead be fixed as a PCI quirk.
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg88670.html
>
> However, 18 months later a similar workaround was introduced for another
> chipset exhibiting the same problem.
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg142287.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Graham Gower <graham.gower@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-08 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-08 16:54 [PATCH] skge: Add DMA mask quirk for Marvell 88E8001 on ASUS P5NSLI motherboard Jan Ceuleers
2012-10-08 16:55 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-10-08 18:34 ` [PATCH v2] " Jan Ceuleers
2012-10-08 18:49 ` David Miller
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