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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:18:27 -0800
From: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
To: - Reyneke <reynekejunk@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Howto use PPC4xx memory to memory DMA
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:28:34PM +0000, - Reyneke wrote:
> 
> This seems to be one of those ongoing uncertainties. It seems commonly 
> advocated that you shouldn't use it, but as yet I've found no suitable 
> alternative.

Really?

Could you elaborate, why API described in Documentation/DMA-API.txt 
(e.g. "Streaming DMA mappings") is not suitable for you?.

-- 
Eugene