From: "Gerhard Pircher" <gerhard_pircher@gmx.net>
To: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Not coherent cache DMA for G3/G4 CPUs: clarification needed
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:56:33 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12655.1145566593@www088.gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060420203848.GA23192@gate.ebshome.net
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
> An: Gerhard Pircher <gerhard_pircher@gmx.net>
> Kopie: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: Not coherent cache DMA for G3/G4 CPUs: clarification needed
> Datum: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:38:48 -0700
>
> There are already non-coherent cache PPC archs (8xx, 4xx) just look
> how all this implemented there, don't reinvent the wheel.
>
> Also, read Documentation/DMA-API.txt and DMA-mapping.txt
I know! Unfortunately this implementation does not work at all with G3/G4
PPC desktop CPUs for various reasons (for example due to the BAT mapping,
page tables with different access attributes for the same physical memory
area allocated by the consistent DMA functions, etc.).
regards,
Gerhard
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-20 18:57 Not coherent cache DMA for G3/G4 CPUs: clarification needed Gerhard Pircher
2006-04-20 20:38 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-20 20:56 ` Gerhard Pircher [this message]
2006-04-20 21:02 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-20 21:10 ` Gerhard Pircher
2006-04-20 21:55 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-20 22:08 ` Gerhard Pircher
2006-04-24 19:21 ` Mark A. Greer
2006-04-21 4:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-21 8:03 ` Gerhard Pircher
2006-04-21 14:33 ` Brent Cook
2006-04-21 21:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-27 21:31 ` Mark A. Greer
2006-04-27 21:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-27 22:08 ` Mark A. Greer
2006-04-29 17:57 ` Gerhard Pircher
2006-04-20 21:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-20 21:13 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-20 21:19 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-20 22:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-20 22:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-20 23:46 ` Gabriel Paubert
2006-04-21 0:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-20 21:33 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-04-20 22:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-21 8:21 ` Gerhard Pircher
2006-04-20 21:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-20 21:33 ` Gerhard Pircher
2006-04-20 22:07 ` Gabriel Paubert
2006-04-20 22:26 ` Gerhard Pircher
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