Re: [BISECTED REGRESSION] b43legacy broken on G4 PowerBook

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Wed Jun 05 2019 - 20:59:22 EST


On Thu, 2019-06-06 at 01:50 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When upgrading from v5.0 -> v5.1 on G4 PowerBook, I noticed WLAN does
> not work anymore:
>
> [ 42.004303] b43legacy-phy0: Loading firmware version 0x127, patch level 14 (2005-04-18 02:36:27)
> [ 42.184837] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Chip initialized
> [ 42.184873] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: The machine/kernel does not support the required 30-bit DMA mask
>
> The same happens with the current mainline.

How much RAM do you have ?

Ben.

>
> Bisected to:
>
> commit 65a21b71f948406201e4f62e41f06513350ca390
> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Feb 13 08:01:26 2019 +0100
>
> powerpc/dma: remove dma_nommu_dma_supported
>
> This function is largely identical to the generic version used
> everywhere else. Replace it with the generic version.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> A.