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    SubjectRe: Proposal for new generic device API: dma_get_required_mask()
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    James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> writes:

    > Could you elaborate on this? In the current scheme the coherent mask is
    > for descriptor allocation (i.e. dma_alloc_coherent()) and the dma_mask
    > represents the bus physical addresses to which the device can DMA
    > directly; there's not much more the DMA API really does, what do you
    > think is missing?

    The problem is that (depending on platform) the pci_map_* and dma_map_*
    functions ignore both masks. An example of such platform is i386 :-)

    It seems the masks are used on i386 for only one thing - consistent
    dma mask is used for consistent allocations only, and normal dma mask
    is not used at all.

    The normal mask is used mainly on 64-bit platforms and the meaningful
    values are 2^32-1 and 2^64-1. It's used by PCI-X device drivers to
    enable DAC transfers. This is why it isn't used on 32-bit platforms.
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    Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH
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