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SubjectRe: DMA API issues
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On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 16:08, David Brownell wrote:
> I'm not following you. This isn't using the PCI DMA calls.
> These dots don't connect: different hardware needs different
> solutions. How would those calls make dma_alloc_coherent work?


The statement was "That's dma_alloc_coherent at its core ... it should
allocate from that 32K region." and what I was pointing out is that not
all platforms can treat an on-chip memory region as a real memory area.
That's why we have the iomem accessor functions.

James


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