Proposed new kernel noncaching memory allocator for the 405gp

[Frank Rowand]

Ralph Blach wrote:
>


>
> David Blythe wrote:


> > I think something more general then pci_alloc_consistent would be
> better
> > for devices that are not pci based.  We are still working on getting a
>
> > pci OHCI usb to work with the walnut card and are running into a lot
> of
> > cache coherency problems.


Dan Malek has provided the functions consistent_alloc(), consistent_free(),
and consistent_sync() for uses other than PCI.  They are in linuxppc_2_5
rev 1.446 and later (I'm not sure if they are in any earlier version).
They are also in my active development kernel, but not yet in any kernel
that I have put on my ftp site.

-Frank
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Frank Rowand <frank_rowand at mvista.com>
MontaVista Software, Inc

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