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FromTimur Tabi <>
DateTue, 21 Sep 2010 17:34:28 -0500
SubjectRe: [PATCH] fsldma: add support to 36-bit physical address
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:

> It needs to be the actual device that is performing the DMA -- the
> platform may need to do things such as IOMMU manipulation where
> knowing the device matters.

Ok, this all makes sense. So it appears that the patch is valid, at
least in theory. I would like to see some testing of it, but I
realize that may be too difficult. There's no easy way to force an
allocation above 4GB.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale


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