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On Thursday 28 June 2012 05:58 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 02:30:26PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 06/28/2012 02:18 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> Oh, dear - this means we don't actually have a generic API at all.  Is
>>> there any effort being made to make this generally available?
>> Yes there is, and in fact in next/master there is generic
>> dma_mmap_writecombine. I'm not quite sure how it behaves on non ARM archs
>> though. But in theory it should fallback to a normal coherent mapping. Marek
>> did a lot of work on this, I've put him on Cc.

So can we put the function snd_pcm_lib_writecombine_mmap() in the 
pcm_native.c and only export this api for ARM i.e.  under macro  #ifdef 
CONFIG_ARM so that ARM based SOCs like Tegra/epa3xx/mxs/spear can 
directly use that one?
Or, wait for this common API until all ARCH support it?