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When newer revisions of the Axienet IP are configured for a 64-bit bus, we *need* to write to the MSB part of the an address registers, otherwise the IP won't recognise this as a DMA start condition. This is even true when the actual DMA address comes from the lower 4 GB. To autodetect this configuration, at probe time we write all 1's to such an MSB register, and see if any bits stick. If this is configured for a 32-bit bus, those MSB registers are RES0, so reading back 0 indicates that no MSB writes are necessary. On the other hands reading anything other than 0 indicated the need to write the MSB registers, so we set the respective flag. The actual DMA mask stays at 32-bit for now. To help bisecting, a separate patch will enable allocations from higher addresses. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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