Re: [PATCHv3 08/16] staging: vme_user: provide DMA functionality

[Martyn Welch]

On 07/07/15 13:51, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote:
> > Current VME stack links windows not to the boards, but to device drivers.
> > >Driver
> > >could potentially minimise window usage within itâs scope (any sort of
> > >window
> > >reusing, like mapping whole A16 once to be used with all boards), but this
> > >wonât
> > >work across multiple drivers. Even if all of your drivers are window-wise
> > >economic,
> > >they will still need some amount of windows per each driver. Not that we
> > >have that
> > >many kernel drivers...
> Yes you can share a window/image between all boards of the same type
> (in effect we are porting our drivers in this way)*but*  it isn't the
> expected way to work (see Documentation/vme_api.txt struct
> vme_driver's probe() and match() functions and the GE PIO2 VME
> driver).

I think it's perfectly valid to use a single window to dynamically map 
to the address space belonging to one of a number of devices supported 
by a single driver. I think this is almost preferable to mapping a large 
window over a large portion of the VME address space to drive a number 
of devices as (depending on there spacing in the VME address space) the 
latter could cause issues with filling available PCI address space. 
Admittedly this is more of a problem on 32-bit systems, but...

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