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

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Fri Sep 11 15:25:36 EST 2009


On Friday 11 September 2009 07:17:50 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 07:12 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > It's already there. See commit:
> >
> > 5ce4b59653b2c2053cd9a011918ac1e4747f24cc
> >
> > powerpc/4xx: Workaround for PPC440EPx/GRx PCI_28 Errata
> 
> Ok, that's another way to do it. Will catch nasty drivers who
> try to write directly rather than clear pci_cache_line_size I suppose...

Correct. IIRC, some PATA driver as Pravin already mentioned.
 
Cheers,
Stefan


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