Re: [PATCH 1/4] of/fdt: Update zone_dma_bits when running in bcm2711

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Oct 09 2020 - 03:10:19 EST


On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:05:25PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> Sadly I just realised that the series is incomplete, we have RPi4 users that
> want to boot unsing ACPI, and this series would break things for them. I'll
> have a word with them to see what we can do for their use-case.

Stupid question: why do these users insist on a totally unsuitable
interface? And why would we as Linux developers care to support such
a aims?