Re: DMA mapping API for non-system memory pools

[James Bottomley]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:33 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> ideally all this would be handled via the dma mapping API, the  
> question is how to convey to the API to use the IO memory vs the  
> system memory?  Should we look at adding a new GFP_IOMEM flag or do  
> something based on struct device?
> 
> Any ideas on direction (or if this is a solved problem elsewhere)  
> would be appreciated.

Doesn't the dma_declare_coherent_memory() API work for this case?  it
was designed for the ARM SoC (and the voyager weird SCSI card).

James


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