Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752575AbXBIXyc (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:54:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752580AbXBIXyc (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:54:32 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:43962 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752575AbXBIXyb (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:54:31 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QcbZ8aP0N0oyJ27L0yTYN18a9Y+Xib/s5TgcOzBGdv+g211Qo9PmZkqJmphlDgg0Ox3lCUvxs/wj87GNGrL6d8Jj21PHEkySDvLqW6feBxFtFfnHQLaCaDuDuEkWnVQpfa1xGXs0UtlWMmNZXteQmucRZrPGc85Re91WOoYzhSo= Message-ID: <7579f7fb0702091554v3dbd5ae9ldcddcc4cca549548@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:54:29 -0800 From: "Matthew Jacob" To: "Kumar Gala" Subject: Re: DMA mapping API for non-system memory pools Cc: "Russell King" , "James Bottomley" , "Linux Kernel list" In-Reply-To: <4479FB80-8703-4BCA-925E-DA25B65EE916@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4479FB80-8703-4BCA-925E-DA25B65EE916@kernel.crashing.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 706 Lines: 14 Yes- this would be interesting to know wrt to doing things like PCI<>PCI xfers (e.g., for things like the Micromemory NVRAM card). On 2/9/07, Kumar Gala wrote: > We've been having a discussion on the linuxppc-dev list about how to > handle IO memory that exists on some PPC SoC devices. These IO > memories behave like system memory but are faster to the processor or > device needed accessing for things like buffer descriptors. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/