AW: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

Sergej.Stepanov at ids.de Sergej.Stepanov at ids.de
Tue Jun 23 00:31:07 EST 2009


>The other part of the fix is in asm-powerpc/pgtable32.h. _PAGE_BASE
>needs _PAGE_COHERENT in order to work correctly, and in fact there is
>now a comment in there to that affect in 2.6.29. Backporting that change
>has made it work on 2.6.26. Both this patch, and the fix to head_32.S
>are needed for it to work correctly on older kernels.
>
>Chris

Hello Chris,

sorry for dummy, but if it possible, could you, please, send a corresponding summary patch of backporting you've done for older kernels?
or just summary of that changes once again?

Many thanks

Sergej.


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