Network inteface w/ DMA

Jan Kasprzak (kas@informatics.muni.cz)
Fri, 04 Sep 1998 18:39:17 +0200


Hello,

I am developing the driver for a synchronous serial board. The board
can send/receive packets via ISA DMA. Is there any way of telling kernel
to pass a DMA-able memory only to the dev->hard_start_xmit()
routine of my device (I am talking about the skb->data here)?

I have looked at other drivers - the ni65.c seems to use its own
bounce buffers and memcpy() to them.

(The rx side is easy because the skb is allocated in the device's
own interrupt routine and I can use alloc_skb(..., ...|GFP_DMA) here).

-Yenya

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