Re: [PATCH] fs_enet: fix freescale FCC ethernet dp buffer alignment

2011-06-17 Thread David Miller
From: Holger Brunck Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:30:39 +0200 > From: Clive Stubbings > > The RIPTR and TIPTR (receive/transmit internal temporary data pointer), > used by microcode as a temporary buffer for data, must be 32-byte aligned > according to the RM for MPC8247. > > Tested on mgcoge. >

RE: [PATCH] fs_enet: fix freescale FCC ethernet dp buffer alignment

2011-06-17 Thread David Laight
> Hello, > Motioned to the memory aligned, now there is such requirement: > When the driver send an packet to hardware, the skb's address passed by > stack do a dma map into hardware, the skb's dma address must > be 64-byte aligned. Does the hardware support buffer chaining? In which case you o