[PATCH] initialize TCE tables

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Tue Jun 7 21:04:27 EST 2005


John Rose writes:

> A fairly recent platform requirement states that the OS must clear the
> whole TCE table at setup time, in case firmware left any active
> mappings in it.  Without this initialization, dynamic bus removes can
> fail.  Firmware rejects these requests if active mappings still exist 
> for a slot that has been deallocated by the OS.
> 
> If there are no objections, I'll forward this to Andrew Morton.

Looks fine to me.  Do we need to push for it to be in 2.6.12?

Paul.



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