[BISECTED REGRESSION] b43legacy broken on G4 PowerBook

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jun 6 10:54:51 AEST 2019


On Thu, 2019-06-06 at 01:50 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When upgrading from v5.0 -> v5.1 on G4 PowerBook, I noticed WLAN does
> not work anymore:
> 
> [   42.004303] b43legacy-phy0: Loading firmware version 0x127, patch level 14 (2005-04-18 02:36:27)
> [   42.184837] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
> [   42.184873] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: The machine/kernel does not support the required 30-bit DMA mask
> 
> The same happens with the current mainline.

How much RAM do you have ?

Ben.

> 
> Bisected to:
> 
> 	commit 65a21b71f948406201e4f62e41f06513350ca390
> 	Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 	Date:   Wed Feb 13 08:01:26 2019 +0100
> 
> 	    powerpc/dma: remove dma_nommu_dma_supported
> 
> 	    This function is largely identical to the generic version used
> 	    everywhere else.  Replace it with the generic version.
> 
> 	    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 	    Tested-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky at xenosoft.de>
> 	    Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> 
> A.



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