On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > Another issue is that when a platform has restricted DMA regions, > they typically don't fall into the highmem zone. As the dmabounce > code allocates from the DMA coherent allocator to provide it with > guaranteed DMA-able memory, that would be rather inconvenient.
Do we encounter this in practice i.e. do those platforms requiring large contiguous allocations motivating this work have such DMA restrictions? Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
