[PATCH v2] fsldma: add support to 36-bit physical address

Timur Tabi timur.tabi at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 09:43:30 EST 2010


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> Is there any reason we shouldn't set DMA_BIT_MASK(64) since the DMA block programming model allows the address to be 64-bits?

Can you explain that?  The DMA registers only have room for 36 bits
for the physical address.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale


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