[Bug 38912] Re: [Bug 38912] Re: [Bug 38912] Re: Broadcom Woes with +1 GB of RAM

[tonfa]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:28:40PM -0000, Ben Collins wrote:
> > It seems like to me that the bug is not so much in the bcm43xx driver,
> > but in the architectures dma allocation routines. The driver correctly
> > sets DMA_30BIT_MASK for the device, but still seems to be getting > 30
> > bit dma addresses from the allocator.
> > 
> > Not sure how this can be fixed.
> 
> Did you follow the thread on the lkml ? I believe it was fixed, I could
> search it if you want.
> 

A fix is included in .17-rc3

"Olof Johansson:
      powerpc: IOMMU support for honoring dma_mask"

I believe the driver was "fixed" to fallback to non-dma mode too, but I
cannot remember what the final conclusion was.

regards,

Benoit

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Broadcom Woes with +1 GB of RAM
https://launchpad.net/bugs/38912