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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Discussion about iopa()
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:22:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <969E3C07-96EE-4AF9-BF57-B10F049684EE@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45CCFF4B.7000102@freescale.com>


On Feb 9, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Kumar Gala wrote:
>
>> It doesn't seem like it's that big of a change.  I'd rather the  
>> code clearly do different things for MURAM vs system memory for  
>> ALL accesses.
>
> Why?  MURAM acts like RAM, it just needs to be mapped first.

It does from a coherence point of view, but not from an allocation  
mechanism.

We should fix it so the driver just has to do dma_alloc_coherent,  
dma_free_coherent, and dma_map_*/dma_unmap_*

- k

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-09 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06 11:31 [PATCH 1/4] ucc_geth: Change private immrbar_virt_to_phys to generic iopa Li Yang
2007-02-06 14:26 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-06 14:26   ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-07  9:34   ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-07  9:34     ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-07 16:36     ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-07 16:36       ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-07 16:43   ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-07 16:43     ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-07 16:49     ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-07 16:49       ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-07 17:03       ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-07 17:03         ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-08  5:52         ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  5:52           ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  5:57           ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08  6:48             ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  6:48               ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  6:53               ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08  6:53                 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08  7:06                 ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  7:06                   ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  7:16                   ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08  7:16                     ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08  7:36                     ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  7:36                       ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  7:41                       ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08  7:41                         ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08  9:22                         ` Discussion about iopa() Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08 13:41                           ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-09 17:08                             ` Dan Malek
2007-02-10  2:37                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-10 18:04                                 ` Dan Malek
2007-02-10 21:40                                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-10 22:27                                     ` Dan Malek
2007-02-10 22:42                                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-08 21:26                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-09 17:13                             ` Dan Malek
2007-02-09 22:06                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-09 22:46                                 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-09 22:51                                   ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-09 23:06                                     ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-09 23:10                                       ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-09 23:19                                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-09 23:22                                         ` Kumar Gala [this message]
2007-02-09 23:33                                           ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-09 23:43                                             ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-09 17:06                           ` Dan Malek
2007-02-08 13:35                 ` [PATCH 1/4] ucc_geth: Change private immrbar_virt_to_phys to generic iopa Timur Tabi
2007-02-08 13:35                   ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-09 17:22                   ` Dan Malek
2007-02-09 17:26                     ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-09 17:26                       ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-08 13:27           ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-07  0:19 ` Jeff Garzik

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