On Sep 21, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Timur Tabi wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com> wrote: > >> It needs to be the actual device that is performing the DMA -- the >> platform may need to do things such as IOMMU manipulation where >> knowing the device matters. > > Ok, this all makes sense. So it appears that the patch is valid, at > least in theory. I would like to see some testing of it, but I > realize that may be too difficult. There's no easy way to force an > allocation above 4GB.
I think the patch is pretty safe w/o testing. However I agree we need a better solution to testing 36-bit addressing. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev