From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom•gr>
To: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@kernel•crashing.org>,
linuxppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/04] Freescale Ethernet combined driver
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 16:14:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4280B3CB.8030007@intracom.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050510062744.A21835@cox.net>
Matt Porter wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 08:13:48AM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
>
>>On May 10, 2005, at 7:17 AM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This patch replace iopa use with virt_to_phys.
>>
>>Not gonna work .....
>>
>>When you map uncached on 8xx you get a new vmalloc()
>>space. The virt_to_xxx macros don't work on those addresses.
>>You need to use the dma_consistent() function, stash the
>>real physical address it returns and then use it where
>>appropriate.
>
>
> That and the use of virt_to_* and friends is deprecated by
> the DMA API. You'll never get that upstream even if it were
> a case where it did work. That's a good thing to know for
> anybody doing other drivers...
>
> -Matt
>
>
OK then.
What's the recommended function to call to go from a
virtual -> physical address, but without doing a cache
flush/invalidate?
Regards
Pantelis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-10 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-09 11:45 [PATCH 03/04] Freescale Ethernet combined driver Pantelis Antoniou
2005-05-09 20:38 ` Matt Porter
2005-05-10 11:17 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-05-10 12:13 ` Dan Malek
2005-05-10 12:15 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-05-10 13:27 ` Matt Porter
2005-05-10 13:14 ` Pantelis Antoniou [this message]
2005-05-10 13:47 ` Matt Porter
2005-05-10 13:36 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-05-12 9:37 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-05-13 8:51 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-05-10 18:14 ` Dan Malek
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2005-05-10 14:53 Rune Torgersen
2005-05-10 18:24 ` Dan Malek
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