[Linux-ia64] Re: 64 Bits DMA Addresses for Alloc Consistent Interfaces.

Colin Ngam
2003-05-15T15:48:15Z

David Mosberger wrote:

> >>>>> On 15 May 2003 10:12:48 -0500, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> said:
>
> James> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 10:06, David Mosberger wrote:
> >> James and I have been discussing this very point for the last
> >> week or so. My preferred solution is to add an explicit dma-mask
> >> argument to coherent/non-coherent allocators, but James prefers
> >> to do this via a new GFP flag (GFP_DMA32 or some such).
>
> James> This is still being hashed out. It looks like adding a the
> James> _mask variants may still be a viable runner for 2.6.

David,

Can you provide a little detail on how the _mask vriant is used and
passed into the call?

Thanks.

colin

>
>
> That would be good.
>
> --david