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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] TTY flip buffer SMP changes
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:32:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097368333.6128.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097286154.5592.9.camel@gaston>

On Sad, 2004-10-09 at 02:42, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> That reminds me... a while ago, I toyed with the idea of having DMA
> support in pmac_zilog. The case where it would work well is typically
> for things that have a known sized frame. If that information was
> provided down to the driver, I could setup the DMA descriptor for
> that frame size & have it interrupt me when the frame is complete,
> along with a timeout set to the estimated time for receiving such
> a frame + X% (I was thinking +20%)

I thought the 85C30 only supported DMA for sync modes ? We have sync
8530 DMA code for ISA bus already, which I never got around to adding
async too 8)


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-10  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-07 19:58 [RFC][PATCH] TTY flip buffer SMP changes Paul Fulghum
2004-10-07 19:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-08  6:26   ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-10-08 13:35     ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-08 12:51       ` Alan Cox
2004-10-08 15:00         ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-10-09  1:42           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-10  0:32             ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-10-10  3:26               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-10 12:49                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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