Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:49:33 +0100 | From | Ian Molton <> | Subject | Re: DMA API issues |
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On 19 Jun 2004 16:46:42 -0500 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
> > But we still need some sort of fallback where the platform really > cannot do this. And that fallback is going to be ioremap and all the > other paraphenalia. So, the thing that bothers me is that if we have > to have the fallback which is identical to what every other driver > that uses on-chip memory does anyway, is there any point to placing > this in the DMA API?
Can you describe a system where its impossible to use the DMA API or one of the modifications proposed here? what sort of hardware does this and why? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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