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From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge•com>
To: paulus@samba•org
Cc: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista•com>,
	ppcdevel <linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: New API for non cache coherent ppc cpu's
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:08:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BFE747D.4080908@embeddededge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 15357.42818.227392.566129@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com


Paul Mackerras wrote:


> To go with pci_map_page and pci_unmap_page.  These give you the
> ability to do DMA to highmem pages without using bounce buffers.

IIRC, there was a virt_to_bus in the code at one time, making it
unusable for highmem pages, which is why I couldn't understand
the appearance of the function.


> My preference would be to make the one set of functions work
> everywhere.

Mine, too.  I just wish this was a common concept across a variety
of our I/O interfaces.

> ....  OTOH these non-PCI devices you're talking about are
> presumably very specific to PPC embedded chips so maybe it doesn't
> matter so much.

That is always a challenge with the embedded parts.  It is often
very convenient to make the (promper, IMHO) assumption this software
isn't going to be used outside of these parts.

Thanks.


	-- Dan


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-23 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-20 20:13 New API for non cache coherent ppc cpu's Armin Kuster
2001-11-21 11:15 ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-21 18:29   ` Armin Kuster
2001-11-21 20:20     ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-22 20:57 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-11-22 23:07   ` Dan Malek
2001-11-22 23:54     ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-23  1:32     ` Paul Mackerras
2001-11-23 16:08       ` Dan Malek [this message]
2001-11-22 23:50   ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-23  1:09     ` Paul Mackerras

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