Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:00:45 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API] |
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Pete Zaitcev writes: > > Some hardware (like OHCI) talks to drivers using those dma handles. > > I wonder if it may be feasible to allocate a bunch of contiguous > pages. Then, whenever the hardware returns a bus address, subtract > the remembered bus address of the zone start, add the offset to > the virtual and voila.
Thankfully, some people are not lazy :-)
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