From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Patrick Mochel <mochel@transmeta.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
MOLNAR Ingo <mingo@chiara.elte.hu>,
Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>,
Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] 32-bit dma memory zone
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:05:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010608100521.A7923@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010607153119.H1522@suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106071402480.6604-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106071402480.6604-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So should we not try to have some nicer interface like
> ...
This would certainly be very useful for ARM. For several machines,
we don't want the dma region starting at ram offset 0, but at some
offset into the memory space. Your suggested interface allows for
this nicely.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-08 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2001-06-07 21:22 ` [patch] 32-bit dma memory zone Linus Torvalds
2001-06-07 21:59 ` Richard Henderson
2001-06-08 1:30 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-08 8:58 ` Steffen Persvold
2001-06-08 14:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-08 21:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-08 9:05 ` Russell King [this message]
2001-06-08 11:19 ` Jens Axboe
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