Discussion about iopa()

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Sat Feb 10 10:33:09 EST 2007


Kumar Gala wrote:

> We should fix it so the driver just has to do dma_alloc_coherent, 
> dma_free_coherent, and dma_map_*/dma_unmap_*

Ok, I'm getting confused now.  The driver currently uses ioremap().  You're 
saying that it should use the dma_xxx functions instead, but not until those 
functions support MURAM?  When that happens, won't that make ioremap() obsolete?

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale



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