netdev - Re: [PATCH] skge: Add DMA mask quirk for Marvell 88E8001 on ASUS P5NSLI motherboard

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Message-ID: <20121008095517.58f86ccc@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Mon, 8 Oct 2012 09:55:17 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Graham Gower <graham.gower@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skge: Add DMA mask quirk for Marvell 88E8001 on ASUS
 P5NSLI motherboard

On Mon,  8 Oct 2012 18:54:35 +0200
Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org> wrote:

> From: Graham Gower <graham.gower@...il.com>
> 
> Marvell 88E8001 on an ASUS P5NSLI motherboard is unable to send/receive
> packets on a system with >4gb ram unless a 32bit DMA mask is used.
> 
> This issue has been around for years and a fix was sent 3.5 years ago, but
> there was some debate as to whether it should instead be fixed as a PCI quirk.
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg88670.html
> 
> However, 18 months later a similar workaround was introduced for another
> chipset exhibiting the same problem.
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg142287.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Graham Gower <graham.gower@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org>

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
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