[PATCH] Fix alignment issues with DMA TX on BCM4331

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sat Aug 13 18:29:37 EDT 2011


On 08/13/2011 05:17 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 17:14 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> I should have made it clearer. My card does 32-bit DMA, thus this code does not
>> change anything in its code. What I tested is that the patch did not break
>> operations on my card due to some unforeseen complication.
>
> Oh, OK. I thought BCM4318 was new enough to do 64-bit DMA. Which devices
> do we need to test on, then?

I need to test with my BCM4311, which was the first card to do 64-bit DMA. I'll 
have to reboot to do that, which is not convenient now. I'll do it within the 
next 18 hours.

Larry



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