Subject: Re: lack of pciide transfer alignment checking causes crash
To: Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/28/2005 19:14:20
On Jun 28, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> Some of the CPU boards that can be fitted to the ARM Integrator/AP
> development boards have on-board memory that can't be used for DMA
> (it's
> not mapped into the PCI address space). This memory is at least 4
> times
> faster than the normal memory sticks that are available (twice the
> clock
> frequency, twice the bus width), but currently I can't use this memory
> with NetBSD because it doesn't do bounces properly.
Sure you could -- this could be completely encapsulated by your
bus_dma back-end.
-- thorpej