[PATCH] ARM: shmobile: set proper DMA masks for Ether devices

Ben Dooks ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Wed Feb 12 10:11:17 EST 2014


On 12/02/14 14:58, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 12-02-2014 18:28, Ben Dooks wrote:
>
>>>>> Ether MAC is a DMA-capable device and so should have 'dev.dma_mask'
>>>>> and
>>>>> 'dev.coherent_dma_mask' fields set properly, to reflect 32-bit DMA
>>>>> addressing
>>>>> ability.  Currently, the code works without DMA masks but in the
>>>>> future, when
>>>>> support for NETIF_F_HIGHDMA & NETIF_F_SG would be added to the
>>>>> 'sh_eth' driver,
>>>>> the DMA masks should start to matter...
>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com>
>
>>>> Hi, do you have a git branch available with all the changes for getting
>>>> ethernet working on rcar please?
>
>>>     Depends on whether you want it working via DT or mere platform
>>> devices. If the second, it's 3.14-rc1. If DT, I don't have a branch,
>>> only several patches to apply atop of the current 'renesas.git' repo's
>>> 'devel' branch that I've posted last week (note that only R8A779x is
>>> currently supported by these patches and NFS boot timeout is still an
>>> issue with them).
>
>> ok, I have a slightly earlier version which seems to work with nfs
>> boot for me.
>
>     There's no "slightly earlier version" (unless you mean DT support
> for BOCK-W posted months ago). Issue with NFS is not fatal, it boots
> fine, just somewhat slow.

I think actually the version we have in our tree may be an rework
of that. It is a while since we looked at it.

My aim is to rebuild on the newer release and use that going forward
as we are trying to stick as close as possible to the mainline.


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