[PATCH v2] arm64: Allow for different DMA and CPU bus offsets

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Wed May 18 06:49:17 PDT 2016


On 05/18/2016 03:27 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 02:53:30PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On arm64, all SoCs we supported so far either have an IOMMU or have bus
>> addresses equal to CPU addresses.
>>
>> However, with the Raspberry Pi 3 coming up, this is no longer true. To
>> allow DMA to work with an AArch64 kernel on those devices, let's allow
>> devices to have DMA offsets again.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
> We were aware about this issue but we've been waiting for an actual use
> case. I'll queue this for 4.8 (given that RPi3 is not supported by the
> arm64 kernel, I don't see the rush to merge it earlier).

Sure, works for me. That way Eric can try to push the other few bits 
necessary to run an arm64 kernel on the RPi3 towards 4.8 as well :).


Alex




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