Re: AW: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Pringle
other core, but I have never heard of such a beast. Hope this helps, Heinz -Original Message- From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+heinz.wrobel=freescale@lists.ozlabs.org [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+heinz.wrobel=freescale@lists.ozlabs.org ] On Behalf Of Chris Pringle Sent: Donnerstag,

Re: AW: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Pringle
c/kernel/head_32.S). I would like to apply your backporting patch to this architecture. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Adam -- __ Chris Pringle Software Design Engineer Miranda Technologies Ltd. Hithercroft Road Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10

Re: AW: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

2009-06-29 Thread Chris Pringle
end a corresponding summary patch of backporting you've done for older kernels? or just summary of that changes once again? Many thanks Sergej. -- ______ Chris Pringle Software Engineer Miranda Technologies Ltd. Hithercroft Road Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 9DG UK

Re: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Pringle
Chris Pringle wrote: Chris Pringle wrote: You could enable CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE. I've just tried this (I had to edit Kconfig in power/platforms to make the build system accept it), and interestingly it's making no difference. I'm using streaming mappings, and are using

Re: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Pringle
Chris Pringle wrote: You could enable CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE. I've just tried this (I had to edit Kconfig in power/platforms to make the build system accept it), and interestingly it's making no difference. I'm using streaming mappings, and are using the pci_map_sg function

Re: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Pringle
f the low latency patches next, and give 2.6.30 a try - see if that makes any difference. -- __________ Chris Pringle Software Engineer Miranda Technologies Ltd. Hithercroft Road Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 9DG UK Tel. +44 1491 820206 Fax. +44 14

Re: PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Pringle
sn't do coherent DMA. Ah right - that would explain what we're seeing then... Doh. Thought I might have been onto something then. Is there any way to force a cache flush? That'd at least prove it was a caching issue if it resolved the problem. Thanks, Chris --

PowerPC PCI DMA issues (prefetch/coherency?)

2009-06-16 Thread Chris Pringle
ike it could cause this. I'm really hoping this is something that we're doing wrong in the driver or the firmware, but we've been through both the firmware and drivers countless times and are unable to see anything wrong. Any thoughts/ideas would be much appreciated! Regards,