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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: hw_params function and OSS emulation
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:48:44 -0500
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Takashi Iwai wrote:

> The driver should deny a too large size if it's unrealistic.
> But 1MB is realistic for many systems.  So, the number depends on the
> system.

Are there any popular applications that really want a DMA buffer larger than 64KB?

On a side note, I notice that ALSA has some scatter-gather support.  If an 
application uses S/G, I presume the concept of a DMA buffer size doesn't even 
apply?

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale