From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael =?UTF-8?B?QsO8c2No?= Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:46:35 +0200 Subject: BCM4321 support In-Reply-To: <4E5BC004.8060608@lwfinger.net> References: <4E5AB689.4010000@lwfinger.net> <4E5BC004.8060608@lwfinger.net> Message-ID: <20110830014635.2c0623d8@milhouse> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:36:20 -0500 Larry Finger wrote: > The firmware has its own private memory and it shares some memory with the host > CPU The firmware does not share any memory with the host CPU. The memory is called "shared memory", but that is a misnomer. The host CPU accesses that memory by memory mapped I/O. Firmware can do DMA only indirectly through the TX and RX engines. -- Greetings, Michael.