Thread (6 messages) flat view 6 messages, 3 authors, 2012-09-22

Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (net-next tree related)

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2012-09-22 20:00:31
Also in: linux-next, lkml, netdev

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 07:46:40 +1000
Right, but on ppc, GFP_DMA is a nop (no separate ZONE_DMA, or rather all
of memory is ZONE_DMA). It's always been like that afaik.

We could support ISA device limited addressability using the iommu but
that would involve a map/unmap type API (which I remember we did support
in the old days by passing NULL to pci_map_*, but we dropped that along
the way).
I think I'm going to just end up restricting this driver to X86
as was originally suggested.

There seems to be no real consistent Kconfig protection for users
of isa_virt_to_bus() and friends.

We know that ISA_DMA_API doesn't do it, and ISA doesn't do it either
as powerpc also allows that to bet set for CHRP and friends.

Thanks.
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