API change for bus_dma
Andrew Gallatin
gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Mon Jun 30 06:59:43 PDT 2003
Justin T. Gibbs writes:
> > > As I understand it, it is possible to set the pycho bridge to use
> > > a coherent address range, but FreeBSD doesn't take advantage of that
> > > yet.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, that's what solaris does..
>
> We added BUS_DMA_COHERENT to the API just before shipping 5.1. It
> is only a "hint", so if you need to verify that the implementation
> was able to give you coherent memory, we should add an API to allow
> you to know. Of course, the Sparc bus dma implementation doesn't honor
> the flag yet, but I'm sure that will change shortly.
>
Thanks Justin!
Drew
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