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Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 09:54:39 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: [BISECTED REGRESSION] b43legacy broken on G4 PowerBook
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 04:59:54PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Ah stupid me ... it's dma_set_mask that failed, since it has no idea
> that the calling driver is limited to lowmem.
> 
> That's also why the "wrong" patch worked.
> 
> So yes, a ZONE_DMA at 30-bits will work, though it's somewhat overkill.

Well, according to Larry it doesn't actually work, which is odd.