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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: stephen@streetfiresound.com
Cc: Manish Jaggi <manish.jaggi@gmail.com>,
	spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [spi-devel-general] [Patch] Add spi full duplex mode transfer support
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:26:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608300926.32532.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1156953418.6555.13.camel@localhost>

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 8:56 am, Stephen Street wrote:

> My experiance has shown the most stack allocated transfer buffers are
> not 8 byte aligned and thus use PIO mode.

Of course, providing a transfer buffer on the stack is nonportable;
it's not DMA-safe (especially on systems with dma-incoherent caches!),
while transfer buffers are required to be DMA-safe so that controller
buffers can choose to use DMA for _all_ transfers if they want.

- Dave



      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-30 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-30  4:40 [Patch] Add spi full duplex mode transfer support Luke Yang
2006-08-30  4:52 ` [spi-devel-general] " David Brownell
     [not found]   ` <2e2add590608300337h3e7e806bs69b63b24d73a104c@mail.gmail.com>
2006-08-30 15:35     ` David Brownell
2006-08-30 15:56     ` Stephen Street
2006-08-30 16:26       ` David Brownell [this message]

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