Re: DMA API issues

[Jeff Garzik]

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 18:26, Ian Molton wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:08:03 -0400
> > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > You _might_ convince the kernel DMA gurus that this could be done by 
> > > creating a driver-specific bus, and pointing struct device to that 
> > > internal bus, but that seems like an awful lot of work as opposed to the 
> > > wrappers.
> >
> > Its an awful lot less work than re-writing all those drivers!
>
>
> Every other driver bar this one already copes correctly with on chip
> memory using the ioremap methods.  That's why we're all wondering if it
> isn't simpler to fix this driver.


Indeed...  if the SRAM is accessible via ioremapped memory, DMA API 
shouldn't be needed.

	Jeff


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