diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sgdma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sgdma.c
index 4bce801bc588..c77111eca6ac 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sgdma.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sgdma.c
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ nouveau_sgdma_populate(struct ttm_backend *be, unsigned long num_pages,
 
 	nvbe->nr_pages = 0;
 	while (num_pages--) {
-		if (dma_addrs[nvbe->nr_pages] != DMA_ERROR_CODE) {
+		/* this code path isn't called and is incorrect anyways */
+		if (0) { /*dma_addrs[nvbe->nr_pages] != DMA_ERROR_CODE)*/
 			nvbe->pages[nvbe->nr_pages] =
 					dma_addrs[nvbe->nr_pages];
 		 	nvbe->ttm_alloced[nvbe->nr_pages] = true;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_gart.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_gart.c
index 8a955bbdb608..a533f52fd163 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_gart.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_gart.c
@@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ int radeon_gart_bind(struct radeon_device *rdev, unsigned offset,
 	p = t / (PAGE_SIZE / RADEON_GPU_PAGE_SIZE);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < pages; i++, p++) {
-		/* On TTM path, we only use the DMA API if TTM_PAGE_FLAG_DMA32
-		 * is requested. */
-		if (dma_addr[i] != DMA_ERROR_CODE) {
+		/* we reverted the patch using dma_addr in TTM for now but this
+		 * code stops building on alpha so just comment it out for now */
+		if (0) { /*dma_addr[i] != DMA_ERROR_CODE) */
 			rdev->gart.ttm_alloced[p] = true;
 			rdev->gart.pages_addr[p] = dma_addr[i];
 		} else {