Comment 11 for bug 38912

Oh and one more thing, how can I contact BenH (or should I not?)?

On Apr 10, 2006, at 9:03 AM, tonfa wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 12:37:16PM -0000, plush wrote:
>> I forgot to mention I'm using Dapper Flight 6, which I believe
>> comes with the powerpc-64 15-19 kernel, dist-upgraded to 15-20, so
>> this is a very current problem.
>
>
> I asked and as you can see here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/4/10/1
> it is a problem with the ppc dma allocation function. It doesn't
> enforce
> the mask set by the driver. So you have to wait until benh (linux
> kernel ppc
> mainteneur) fixes the ppc code.
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:28:00AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
>> No, GFP_DMA is a NOP on PPC.
>> Actually the problems seems much more complex and a correct fix
>> seems to be hard to do.
>> I think benh is actually fixing this.
>>
>> To summerize: I actually added these messages, because people were
>> hitting "this does not work with >1G" issues and did not get an error
>> message.
>> So I decided to insert warnings until the issue is fixed inside the
>> arch code.
>> I will remove them once the issue is fixed.
>
> I'll post here if I get any update on this.
>
> regards,
>
> Benoit
>
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