Re: [PATCH] SATA: OCTEON: support SATA on OCTEON platform

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Jan 19 2015 - 15:30:51 EST


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:16 PM, David Daney <ddaney.cavm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/19/2015 07:43 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 03:23:58PM +0000, Aleksey Makarov wrote:
>>>
>>> The OCTEON SATA controller is currently found on cn71XX devices.

[...]

>>> +
>>> + /* Set a good dma_mask */
>>> + pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(64);
>>> + pdev->dev.dma_mask = &pdev->dev.coherent_dma_mask;
>>
>>
>> I thought a dma-ranges property in the DT could be used to set up the
>> DMA mask appropriately?
>
>
> The DT contains no dma-ranges property, and we know a priori, that it should
> be 64-bits.

Neither this code nor dma-ranges should be necessary. The AHCI core
code will set the mask to 32 or 64 bits based on the AHCI Capabilities
register.

Rob
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