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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Siva Prasad <sprasad@bivio.net>
Cc: sureshtang@gmail.com, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Linuxppc-embedded Digest, Vol 35, Issue 33
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:09:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469B9825.6070507@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D83235F0F3C86D4D889D8B9A0DA8C6D78D7DE9@corpexc01.corp.networkrobots.com>

Siva Prasad wrote:
> It returns kernel virtual address. If you use this buffer space for DMA,
> please use appropriate flags. You may use __pa(address) or
> virt_to_phys() to convert virtual to physical.

No, you may not -- physical and DMA addresses are not always identical. 
  Use the DMA mapping API.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-16 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1061.1184600645.8639.linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
2007-07-16 15:58 ` Linuxppc-embedded Digest, Vol 35, Issue 33 Siva Prasad
2007-07-16 16:09   ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-07-17  5:59     ` suresh suresh
2007-07-17 16:02       ` Scott Wood
2007-07-17 22:41       ` Siva Prasad
2007-07-17 22:51         ` Scott Wood

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