From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 05:06:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 05:06:08 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:26884 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 05:05:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:05:21 +0100 From: Russell King To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jens Axboe , Patrick Mochel , Alan Cox , "David S. Miller" , MOLNAR Ingo , Richard Henderson , Kanoj Sarcar , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] 32-bit dma memory zone Message-ID: <20010608100521.A7923@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010607153119.H1522@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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