[PATCH 2/5] arm: mvebu: Select DMA_BOUNCE when LPAE is selected in Kconfig

Krzysztof Halasa khc at pm.waw.pl
Sun Mar 24 06:48:16 EST 2013


Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> writes:

> Oh god no.  Please move away from the addition on DMABOUNCE - that code
> creaks, doesn't have highmem support, and is known to give problems on
> various platforms.
>
> Instead, please rely on using the DMA mask and such like, just like on
> x86.

It still needs some sort of bouncing (for data passed to the device from
upper levels). I wonder if swiotlb doesn't do the same thing.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa


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