Re: [PATCH] mips: Add dma_mmap_coherent()

[tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 08:07:44AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> I don't think that this must work for *every* platform, too, and it's
> not expected from the driver.  The systems without uncached memory
> access can simply return an error from  dma_mmap_coherent() call, so
> that the driver can disable the mmap.  That'd be enough.

true, I've used snd_pcm_indirect for HAL2 driver, which works even on
SGI IP28 machines.

> Now, how to handle these exceptions: a question comes into my mind
> again -- how does the framebuffer handle these as well?

most framebuffers have a dedicated set of video memory and this memory is
just mmaped uncached either via TLB/MMU (MIPS) or rules inside
the system (PARISC uses IO space memory, which is always uncached). 
The code which does this mmaping is in drivers/video/fbmem.c plus
fb_pgprotect out of an include/asm header file. 

For framebuffers without dedicated video memory the memory is mmaped
write through or uncached. A driver, which uses this, is 
drivers/video/gbefb.c.

Thomas.

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