On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:06:52AM +0100, Marcus Comstedt wrote:

 > For the Maple Bus driver, I need to allocate some contiguous physical
 > memory for use as DMA buffers.  The code I use currently looks in
 > principle like this:
 > 
 >  paddr_t dmabuf = SH3_P2SEG_TO_PHYS(vtophys(uvm_km_alloc(phys_map, SIZE)))
 > 
 > Can someone confirm that this is the right way to do it?  I'm a little
 > confused that the vtophys function returns a P2 address rather than a
 > physical address...

Not even that is completely safe.

The Right Thing To Do would be to implement the framework described in
bus_dma(9).  This is particularly important for when you get the broadband
adapter working, which as I understand it, is a SHB->PCI bridge with a
PCI Ethernet chip on the other side.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>