On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 03:24  PM, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:

>   I guess the only question is, how does the software know in some
>   generic sense whether the device fits all of the constraints needed
>   for STREAMING.  Is using STREAMING dangerous in the non-COHERENT
>   case, or in the case where the device accesses things "strangely"?

STREAMING would not work for any device that accesses host RAM to use 
as e.g. scratch memory (that the host CPU might not necessarily access).

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