linux-kernel - Re: [BISECTED REGRESSION] b43legacy broken on G4 PowerBook

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:59:51 +1000
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@...osoft.de>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [BISECTED REGRESSION] b43legacy broken on G4 PowerBook

On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 14:41 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 6/12/19 1:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > Ooops, yes.  But I think we could just enable ZONE_DMA on 32-bit
> > powerpc.  Crude enablement hack below:
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > index 8c1c636308c8..1dd71a98b70c 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ config PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DAC_RANGE
> >    
> >    config ZONE_DMA
> >        bool
> > -     default y if PPC_BOOK3E_64
> > +     default y
> >    
> >    config PGTABLE_LEVELS
> >        int
> > 
> 
> With the patch for Kconfig above, and the original patch setting 
> ARCH_ZONE_DMA_BITS to 30, everything works.
> 
> Do you have any ideas on what should trigger the change in ARCH_ZONE_BITS? 
> Should it be CONFIG_PPC32 defined, or perhaps CONFIG_G4_CPU defined?

I think CONFIG_PPC32 is fine

Ben.