[U-Boot] [PATCH V3] net: fec_mxc: allow use with cache enabled

Eric Nelson eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com
Wed Mar 14 22:04:32 CET 2012


On 03/14/2012 01:33 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2012 15:12:10 Eric Nelson wrote:
>> On 03/13/2012 10:41 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 14 March 2012 01:12:38 Eric Nelson wrote:
>>>> Most of the PPC devices seem to have values of 16 or 32
>>>> for ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN, but PPC64BRIDGE and E500MC would
>>>> have a problem if their drivers don't implement a bounce
>>>> buffer because PKTALIGN<   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN.
>>>>
>>>> (see arch/powerpc/include/asm/cache.h)
>>>>
>>>> This condition is properly tested for in fec_mxc.c.
>>>
>>> so fix this in common code instead of hacking around it in individual
>>> drivers. seems to me that PKTALIGN should be defined to
>>> ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN and ultimately removed.
>>
>> I'm not in a position to test against MAKEALL, but it appears that all
>> architectures have cache.h and define ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
>
> ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN is required.  if an arch/board omits it, they are broken and
> you need not worry about it.  we already have common code requiring int.
>

Sounds good.

>> --- a/include/net.h
>> +++ b/include/net.h
>>
>> -#define PKTALIGN       32
>> +#define PKTALIGN       ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
>
> looks fine to me
> -mike

You want I should send a formal patch?

Should I consider "looks fine" to be an ack?

If so, I'll also send an update (V5) to fec_mxc that removes the
check on PKTALIGN.

Please advise,


Eric


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