On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Kumar Gala <ga...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > 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.
I'll take that as an acked-by, but I'll wait for the next version of the patch with the completed changelog before acting on it. -- Dan _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
