From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264012AbUFRXhV (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:37:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265768AbUFRXd6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:33:58 -0400 Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]:2962 "EHLO outmail.freedom2surf.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265785AbUFRXcg (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:32:36 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:31:51 +0100 From: Ian Molton To: James Bottomley Cc: david-b@pacbell.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, tony@atomide.com, jamey.hicks@hp.com, joshua@joshuawise.com Subject: Re: DMA API issues Message-Id: <20040619003151.04e67b07.spyro@f2s.com> In-Reply-To: <1087600052.2135.197.camel@mulgrave> References: <1087582845.1752.107.camel@mulgrave> <20040618193544.48b88771.spyro@f2s.com> <1087584769.2134.119.camel@mulgrave> <20040618195721.0cf43ec2.spyro@f2s.co m> <40D34078.5060909@pacbell.net> <20040618204438.35278560.spyro@f2s.com> <1087588627.2134.155.camel@mulgrave> <40D359BB.3090106@pacbell.net> <1087593282.2135.176.camel@mulgrave> <40D36EDE.2080803@pacbell.net> <1087600052.2135.197.camel@mulgrave> Organization: The Dragon Roost X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12-gtk2-20040617 (GTK+ 2.4.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 18 Jun 2004 18:07:30 -0500 James Bottomley wrote: > > Well, yes, but the problem: chips have onboard memory is generic. The > proposed solution in the DMA API can't only work on certain platforms. It will work on any platform where the memory is directly visible to the CPU... if this sint the case its not *D* MA (ie. *direct* memory access is it?