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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: use cached memory in dma_alloc_coherent() if possible
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:30:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101221103057.GK28157@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292926802-12326-2-git-send-email-jamie@jamieiles.com>

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:20:02AM +0000, Jamie Iles wrote:
> For fully coherent architectures or systems using the ARM ACP to provide
> coherency to individual device, use cached memory as the coherent
> backing rather than noncached or simply bufferable memory.

As has already been covered by Catalin, as far as we know, no one uses
the ACP yet.  Do you have a system which does?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-21 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-21 10:20 [PATCH 1/2] ARM: convert dma-mapping to asm-generic API Jamie Iles
2010-12-21 10:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: use cached memory in dma_alloc_coherent() if possible Jamie Iles
2010-12-21 10:30   ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2010-12-21 10:34     ` Jamie Iles
2010-12-21 11:11     ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-21 11:22       ` Jamie Iles
2010-12-21 10:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: convert dma-mapping to asm-generic API Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-21 11:01   ` Jamie Iles
2010-12-21 16:04     ` Jamie Iles
2010-12-22  2:57     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-12-21 10:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-12-21 10:59   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-21 11:53     ` Arnd Bergmann

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