Re: [patch] 32-bit dma memory zone

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 04:05:21 EST

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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:22:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So should we not try to have some nicer interface like
> ...

This would certainly be very useful for ARM. For several machines,
we don't want the dma region starting at ram offset 0, but at some
offset into the memory space. Your suggested interface allows for
this nicely.

-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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