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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] riscv: Add DMA_COHERENT support
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On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 01:48:23PM +0800, Guo Ren wrote:
> The patchset just leaves a configuration chance for vendors. Before
> RISC-V ISA fixes it, we should give the chance to let vendor solve
> their real chip issues.

No.  The vendors need to work to get a feature standardized before
implementing it.  There is other way to have a sane kernel build that
supports all the different SOCs.