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From: Ameya Palande <ameya.palande@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] DSPBRIDGE: move platform_device_register under mach-omap2
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:16:59 +0200
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To: "ext Kanigeri, Hari" <h-kanigeri2@ti.com>
Cc: "Doyu Hiroshi (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <hiroshi.doyu@nokia.com>, "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>, "2ameya@gmail.com" <2ameya@gmail.com>

ext Kanigeri, Hari wrote:
> Thanks, Doyu-San.
> 
> I am still going through the patch, but one quick question regarding this. One of the requirements of DSP memory pool is that it should be physically contiguous and non-cacheable. I hope the below patch is taking care of this requirement.
> 
> Thank you,
> Best regards,
> Hari
> 

Hi Hari,

I just checked __alloc_bootmem_nopanic() function.
I think memory allocated by that function is physically contiguous since
page frames are allocated in sequential order.

But I didn't get any information about page cacheing :(

Cheers,
Ameya.