[PATCH 2.6.22.y] ieee1394: revert "sbp2: enforce 32bit DMA mapping"
Andi Kleen
andi at firstfloor.org
Tue Aug 7 12:18:43 EST 2007
Stefan Richter <stefanr at s5r6.in-berlin.de> writes:
>
> 1.) The ieee1394 subsystem is known to work on x86_64 with more than 4
> GB RAM,
It's actually ~3+GB where memory above the 4GB barrier starts appearing.
In some extreme cases even for 2+GB.
> so I gather that architecture code already sets a proper DMA
> mask for all those 32bit PCI OHCI-1394 implementations out there.
If you don't set a DMA mask then the default is always 4GB.
-Andi
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