Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:02:17 -0800 | From | Earl Chew <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Userspace I/O (UIO): Add support for userspace DMA |
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I'm taking another look at the changes that were submitted in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/3/453
to see if they can be made more palatable.
In http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/4/64 you wrote:
> Why not create another special device that will give you DMA memory when > you mmap it? That would also allow you to obtain the physical address > without this utter horrid hack of writing it in the mmap'ed memory. > > /dev/uioN-dma would seem like a fine name for that.
I understand the main objection was the hack to return the physical address of the allocated DMA buffer within the buffer itself amongst some other things.
Your suggestion was to create /dev/uioN-dma for the purpose of allocating DMA memory.
I'm having trouble figuring out how this would help to return the physical (bus) address of the DMA memory in a more elegant manner.
What idea did you have for the userspace program to obtain the physical (bus) of the allocated DMA memory buffer?
Earl
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