[PATCH]: [MPC5200] Add ATA DMA support

Tim Yamin plasm at roo.me.uk
Wed Aug 13 16:06:27 EST 2008


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:
> While on this topic; have you had a chance to address the comments you
> received on v2 of your patch?  I'm keen to get your change merged in,
> but there are a few more things that need to be sorted out.

I'm still trying to determine whether the locking stuff is needed or
not. I think ultimately it might be a bug caused by hardware problems
at this end as opposed to silicon problems affecting everybody, but I
won't have an answer regarding this for a while because new hardware
needs to be prototyped to test out this theory.

I think the patch can probably be resubmitted with the locking stuff
removed, and the driver can be marked as experimental for everybody to
try out: if people experience any corruption problems I'm sure they
can speak up :-)

Any objections?

Tim



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