From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753556AbYIQCm4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:42:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752677AbYIQCmt (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:42:49 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:47443 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752667AbYIQCms (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:42:48 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Alessio Sangalli Cc: Ben Nizette , Ben Dooks , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Driver for tightly coupled memory In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:49:53 PDT." <48D03811.9070805@manoweb.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <48CEC71F.3000006@manoweb.com> <20080916093513.GF1916@fluff.org.uk> <48CFEF3F.5040901@manoweb.com> <1221604022.3598.4.camel@moss.renham> <48D03811.9070805@manoweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1221619342_8266P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:42:22 -0400 Message-ID: <24229.1221619342@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1221619342_8266P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:49:53 PDT, Alessio Sangalli said: > In this case however, do you imply that a device driver will just do all > the genalloc stuff? In this case it has to know about the TCM details, What sort of hardware/software interface does the TCM provide? You mentioned that it could be accessed even while main memory is being accessed - what does that look like from the software level? --==_Exmh_1221619342_8266P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFI0G6OcC3lWbTT17ARAhptAKCOV5mp70Srgqm0lXuXQDu+e1kzGACfSl8E l25HSi9AaUOH9Lu8oG/mUcU= =3VeX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1221619342_8266P--