From: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks@hp.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>,
david-b@pacbell.net, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
greg@kroah.com, tony@atomide.com, joshua@joshuawise.com
Subject: Re: DMA API issues
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:59:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D5FAC7.7060601@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1087616990.2078.240.camel@mulgrave>
James Bottomley wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 19:14, Ian Molton wrote:
>
>
>>On 18 Jun 2004 19:04:11 -0500
>>James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Because the piece of memory you wish to access is bus remote.
>>>
>>>
>>No, its *not*
>>
>>my CPU can write there directly.
>>
>>no strings attached.
>>
>>the DMA API just only understands how to map from RAM, not anything
>>else.
>>
>>
>
>I think you'll actually find that it is. OHCI is a device (representing
>a USB hub), it's attached to the system by some interface that
>constitutes a bus (the bus interface transforming the CPU access cycles
>to device access cycles, translating interrupts etc.).
>
>
>
Bus remote is a red herring in this case. The only difference between
this case and the ones supported by the coherent_dma_mask is that the
constraint on placement of the allocated memory cannot be encoded as a
bitmask.
Jamey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-20 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-18 18:20 DMA API issues James Bottomley
2004-06-18 18:35 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-18 18:52 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 18:57 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-18 19:20 ` David Brownell
2004-06-18 19:44 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-18 19:57 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 21:08 ` David Brownell
2004-06-18 21:14 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 22:38 ` David Brownell
2004-06-18 23:07 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 23:31 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-19 18:23 ` David Brownell
2004-06-19 20:41 ` Russell King
2004-06-19 21:46 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-19 22:49 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-20 13:37 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-20 15:50 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-20 16:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-20 16:57 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-20 20:15 ` David Brownell
2004-06-20 16:46 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-20 18:02 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-20 19:27 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-20 19:34 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-20 20:07 ` David Brownell
2004-06-20 20:18 ` David Brownell
2004-06-20 20:02 ` David Brownell
2004-06-18 23:25 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-18 23:29 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 23:51 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-19 0:04 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-19 0:14 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-19 3:49 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-20 20:59 ` Jamey Hicks [this message]
2004-06-19 15:11 ` DMA API issues... summary Ian Molton
2004-06-20 20:49 ` Joshua Wise
2004-06-18 19:30 ` DMA API issues James Bottomley
2004-06-18 19:56 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-18 19:22 ` Jamey Hicks
2004-06-18 19:41 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 20:02 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-18 20:07 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 20:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-18 20:24 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 21:20 ` Russell King
2004-06-18 23:20 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-20 18:25 ` Deepak Saxena
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-18 16:59 Ian Molton
2004-06-18 18:07 ` Matt Porter
2004-06-18 18:19 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-18 18:58 ` Matt Porter
2004-06-18 18:33 ` Jamey Hicks
2004-06-18 19:21 ` Matt Porter
2004-06-18 19:43 ` Russell King
2004-06-21 13:35 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-21 23:08 ` Russell King
2004-06-22 2:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-22 3:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-22 3:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-22 10:40 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-23 12:34 ` Russell King
2004-06-23 15:36 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-23 15:44 ` Russell King
2004-06-23 16:01 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-23 16:10 ` Russell King
2004-06-22 10:48 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-18 19:48 ` Jamey Hicks
2004-06-18 21:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-18 22:12 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-18 23:27 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-18 23:26 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-18 23:30 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 23:32 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <20040619005714.37b68453.spyro@f2s.com>
[not found] ` <40D3838B.2070608@pobox.com>
[not found] ` <20040619011621.4491600a.spyro@f2s.com>
[not found] ` <40D3872F.5010007@pobox.com>
2004-06-19 0:34 ` Ian Molton
2004-06-19 21:15 ` Tony Lindgren
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