On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:04:54PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> >System physical addresses != DMA addresses.  At least, on many platforms 
> >this is the case.
> >
> >The whole idea is that bus_dmamem_alloc() returns addresses that are 
> >opaque to the driver.  The driver MUST use bus_dmamap_load*() in order to 
> >translate an address to one valid for use in DMA.
> 
> which fpa does.  It allocates a 8KB chunk of which only a small portion
> should be coherent.  it try to map/load this small chunk as coherent which
> is what that code is trying to do.

The problem is that at this point, the values returned by bus_dmamem_alloc()
are opaque to the driver, and only for use by the other bus_dma funtions.
The values that fpa handles as memory adress and lenght may be some
internal values to bus_dma, and may not have the linearity property
that this driver assumes it has.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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