New API for non cache coherent ppc cpu's

Roman Zippel zippel at linux-m68k.org
Fri Nov 23 10:54:02 EST 2001


Hi,

Dan Malek wrote:

> For non-PCI devices,
> I call the consistent_* functions, which other architectures support
> and do as well.  So, we kind of have a common interface here for non-PCI
> devices as well.
>
> I stole all of this cache coherency stuff from ARM and Sparc (or MIPS,
> I don't remember) when I did it the first time.

The only other architecture which defines it is ARM?!
The only API which exists at least as dummys everywhere is
dma_cache_(inv|wback).

bye, Roman

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