> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>> If setting 32-bit DMA mask fails on ppc64, that sounds like a problem
> >>> with the DMA implementation on that architecture. There are enough cards
> >>> out there that only support 32-bit DMA that this really needs to work..
> >> Yes, could the PPC folks please have a look at it? Thanks.
> >
> > Smells like we may have a bug there. No worries though, all current PPC
> > machines have an iommu that will not give out addresses above 32 bits
> > anyway, but I'll double check what's up.
> >
> > Do you see something in dmesg when that happens ?
>
> There was nothing in Olaf's report, except for trouble in sbp2 _after_
> the failure.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/344 (I don't have a PMac.)