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

[Timur Tabi]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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