driver replacements for kmalloc and __pa()

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Sep 10 08:24:42 EST 2008


Jeff Brower wrote:
> What are the up-to-date APIs we should be using for DMA memory allocation and
> virtual-to-physical address translation?  We have another driver for another device
> that's working fine on this board and it uses pci_alloc_consistent().  What about
> bus_space_vaddr()?  I'm hoping to get a recommendation for what's currently
> appropriate and most future-proof for drivers that depend on external PCI DMA.

Documentation/DMA-API.txt.

-Scott


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