Linuxppc-embedded Digest, Vol 35, Issue 33

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Jul 17 02:09:09 EST 2007


Siva Prasad wrote:
> It returns kernel virtual address. If you use this buffer space for DMA,
> please use appropriate flags. You may use __pa(address) or
> virt_to_phys() to convert virtual to physical.

No, you may not -- physical and DMA addresses are not always identical. 
  Use the DMA mapping API.

-Scott




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