On Monday 12 February 2001 11:17 pm, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 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 ;-)

No probs, whole point of this is that people can do things when they've got 
the time :)  Can give any pointers to where someone else could start perhaps 
they could do some work on it?  I'm willing, however it wouldn't be for a 
while.

Cheers,
Chris