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From: Adrian Cox <adrian@humboldt.co.uk>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: John Whitney <jwhitney-linuxppc@sands-edge.com>,
	Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with dma_alloc_coherent()
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 08:33:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080977598.7999.791.camel@newt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16493.61242.908659.82167@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>


On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 23:54, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> If you want to write code to handle a separate DMA controller, go
> ahead.  You will need to design your own separate API for it.  I
> wouldn't try to make it too general, though, since there are very few
> systems these days that have DMA controllers (as distinct from
> bus-master capable I/O devices).

Actually, they are extremely common in the embedded market. On my desk I
have three Linux systems with this class of DMA engine: an MPC107/7410,
an ARM9 from Cirrus, and an ARM9 from TI. Most system-on-a-chip
processors have DMA engines which can move between any two of memory,
PCI, and internal peripherals.

- Adrian Cox


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-03  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 15:59 Problems with dma_alloc_coherent() John Whitney
2004-04-01 16:30 ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 16:51 ` Dan Malek
2004-04-01 17:01 ` Tom Rini
2004-04-01 17:05 ` Matt Porter
2004-04-01 17:51   ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 18:16     ` Matt Porter
2004-04-01 18:19     ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 18:33       ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 18:33       ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 18:40         ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 18:48           ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 18:55       ` Dan Malek
2004-04-01 18:59         ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 19:10           ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 19:17             ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 19:35               ` John Whitney
2004-04-01 20:52               ` Michael R. Zucca
2004-04-01 22:00                 ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-04-01 22:39                   ` Michael R. Zucca
2004-04-02 16:50                   ` John Whitney
2004-04-02 18:50                     ` Michael R. Zucca
2004-04-02 19:27                       ` John Whitney
2004-04-02 20:20                         ` Michael R. Zucca
2004-04-02 21:01                           ` John Whitney
2004-04-03  7:54                             ` Adrian Cox
2004-04-03 12:43                               ` John Whitney
2004-04-05  9:05                                 ` Adrian Cox
2004-04-03 17:33                               ` Brad Boyer
2004-04-03 23:17                                 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-04-04  8:15                                 ` Adrian Cox
2004-04-02 22:54                     ` Paul Mackerras
2004-04-03  7:33                       ` Adrian Cox [this message]
2004-04-04 22:56                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-02  5:45             ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-01 20:49           ` Matt Porter

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