> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ] On Behalf Of Vladimir Pantelic
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:10 AM
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Cache issue with MPEG4 Encoder / Decoder on DM355
> 
> Ring, Chris wrote:
> 
> > Given that... users that need this functionality _today_ 
> may have to 
> > resort to hacks in the near term. One system-specific hack/approach 
> > could be to modify CMEM to identify all the alloc requests from the 
> > audio codecs (perhaps by size?), and convert all the requests 
> > identified for the audio codecs as cacheable, regardless of whether 
> > it's asked for cacheable or not. Yes, it's a hack, but 
> might get you 
> > past this until we have more official support in xDAIS/CE.
> 
> Couldn't the ARM side audio codec just use malloc() instead 
> of calling whatever code to request memory from CE?
> 

If the ARM side codec uses HW accelerators then it probably still needs
contiguous memory from CMEM.  If it's just using CPU reads/writes then
it could use malloc().
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