Re: [PATCH v2] fsldma: add support to 36-bit physical address

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Sat Nov 13 2010 - 17:44:08 EST


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Kumar Gala <galak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is there any reason we shouldn't set DMA_BIT_MASK(64) since the DMA block programming model allows the address to be 64-bits?

Can you explain that? The DMA registers only have room for 36 bits
for the physical address.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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