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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:54:51 +0200
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
       Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>, stable@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA	mapping"
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>>> If setting 32-bit DMA mask fails on ppc64, that sounds like a problem
>>> with the DMA implementation on that architecture. There are enough cards
>>> out there that only support 32-bit DMA that this really needs to work..
>> Yes, could the PPC folks please have a look at it?  Thanks.
> 
> Smells like we may have a bug there. No worries though, all current PPC
> machines have an iommu that will not give out addresses above 32 bits
> anyway, but I'll double check what's up.
> 
> Do you see something in dmesg when that happens ?

There was nothing in Olaf's report, except for trouble in sbp2 _after_
the failure.  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/344  (I don't have a PMac.)
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Stefan Richter
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