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Re: brcmfmac: properly align buffers on certain platforms with 64 bit DMA

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Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Systems with 64 bit DMA at least partially require buffers to be used
> for DMA to be 8-byte-aligned. One example is Amlogic Meson GX.
> Switching the MMC/SDIO driver for this platform to SG DMA mode
> resulted in problems due to unaligned buffers.
> 
> Fortunately the brcmfmac driver has a global define for the alignment.
> Changing it to 8 fixed the issues with Meson GX.
> 
> Suggested-by: Helmut Klein <hgkr.klein@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Helmut Klein <hgkr.klein@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

6e84ab604bde brcmfmac: properly align buffers on certain platforms with 64 bit DMA

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9665425/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches




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