Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Dec 2011 22:41:49 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Introducing ZIO, a new I/O framework | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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2011/11/26 Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>:
> I'm open to suggestions (_we_ are) about how to easily use IIO for > output, for hardware timestamps (we have 3 32-bit fields) and for very > large data blocks, with DMA to/from user space -- sure we don't have this > last point in ZIO at this point in time.
The latter seem like a case for the dma-buf mechanism. http://lwn.net/Articles/462524/
(Interesting hardware you found Alessandro! :)
Yours, Linus Walleij
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