From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ABA6746.4BB8DF7@intrex.net> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:57:42 -0500 From: Ralph Blach MIME-Version: 1.0 To: frowand@mvista.com Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org, David Blythe Subject: Re: Proposed new kernel noncaching memory allocator for the 405gp References: <3ABA1B6A.87C5FE9B@intrex.net> <3ABA5152.34E4F5B4@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Frank, Yes, but these allocate on a page boundry and I was thinking of something a little more granular. Any objections? Chip Frank Rowand wrote: > Ralph Blach wrote: > > > > > > > David Blythe wrote: > > > > I think something more general then pci_alloc_consistent would be > > better > > > for devices that are not pci based. We are still working on getting a > > > > > pci OHCI usb to work with the walnut card and are running into a lot > > of > > > cache coherency problems. > > Dan Malek has provided the functions consistent_alloc(), consistent_free(), > and consistent_sync() for uses other than PCI. They are in linuxppc_2_5 > rev 1.446 and later (I'm not sure if they are in any earlier version). > They are also in my active development kernel, but not yet in any kernel > that I have put on my ftp site. > > -Frank > -- > Frank Rowand > MontaVista Software, Inc -- Ralph "Chip" Blach KF4WBK Chapel Hill, North Carolina ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/