[P.A. Semi] Does the ethernet interface work on your Electra, Chitra, Nemo, and Athena board?
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Dec 9 10:38:46 AEDT 2015
On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 15:12 +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have some good news for you. I was able to fix the issue with the
> P.A.
> Semi Ethernet. It was a problem with the new DMA handling. The patch
> '
> [RFC/PATCH,v2] powerpc/iommu: Support "hybrid" iommu/direct DMA ops
> for
> coherent_mask < dma_mask (https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/472535/)
> '
> is the problem.
Send me your .config and the full dmesg output. I can't seem to
reproduce here.
Cheers,
Ben.
> I had patched the following files before I compiled a kernel.
>
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/device.h
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/iommu.h
> arch/powerpc/kernel/dma-iommu.c
> arch/powerpc/kernel/dma-swiotlb.c
> arch/powerpc/kernel/dma.c
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/iommu.c
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c
> include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h
>
> The P.A. Semi Ethernet works again with the patched kernel.
>
> I am happy. :-)
>
> Please fix the issue in the kernel source code.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Christian
>
>
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