Larry Finger <[email protected]> writes:
> I am trying to debug a bcm43xx DMA problem on an x86_64 system with 3
> GB RAM. Depending on the particular chip and its implementation, dma
> transfers may use 64-, 32-, or 30-bit addressing, with the problem
> interface using 30-bit addressing. From test prints, the correct mask
> (0x3FFFFFFF) is supplied to pci_set_dma_mask and
> pci_set_consistent_dma_mask. Neither call returns an error. In
> addition, several x86_64 systems with more than 1 GB RAM have worked
> with the current code.
30bit DMA has be bounced through GFP_DMA. The driver needs special
code for this. You can look at the b44 driver for a working reference.
The pci_dma_* interfaces on x86-64 only support masks >= 0xffffffff,
anything smaller has to be handled manually.
-Andi
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