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From: Sebastian Heidl <heidl@zib.de>
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Subject: DMA to/from user buffers
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Hi,

two questions about using an user-supplied buffer (e.g. malloced
in user space) for DMA transfers:

1. Is it possible ?
2. What restrictions/requirements apply for the buffer (alignment...) ?

Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt only talks about buffers allocated in
kernel space.

thanks,
_sh_

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