Subject: Re: New bootloader for RiscPC+Kinetic available
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/12/2001 23:17:49
chris@paradox.demon.co.uk said:
> I think other things use it, IOMD possibly.  As I said it locked up
> (normally  doing a make build)  I suspect that we need to work out
> what buffers are DMA  and make the malloc's use a dma version.
> Preference would be to not use the  simms but for DMA.  However it
> needs pmap work I believe.  I've not got time  at the mo to
> investigate, I'm moving in a few days time. 

A bus_space DMA for IOMD would solve most of this, and it would be able to 
handle Kinetic type modules cleanly.  Yes, I know I said I'd look at this 
before Xmas.  Unfortunately, it's been pushed down my priority queue a bit 
recently.  I will get around to it somtime (promise ;-)

R.