> Hardware coherency for DMA is the exception for low-end embedded MIPS
> systems andgiven the CPU address your's is no exception from that.
>
> If your system was supporting hardware coherency for DMA I/O you would
> have obtained a cachable CPU address like:
>
> dma_handle=0x026f0000 size=0x00010000 cpu_addr=0x826f0000
> ^^^
>
> A 0x8??????? would be in KSEG0 so cachable.
I do have a an embedded system. Are you saying that, in all likelyhood,
I do not have coherency? If I understand you correctly, this is a bad
thing right? Will I need to take extra care to work around this issue.
So are you saying I would prefer a cpu_addr in the 0x8******* range?
If it is true that I don't have hardware coherency should I still be
using the pci_*_consistent api? Or should I switch to the
dma_*_noncoherent api? Also what extra steps do I need to take to get
this to work with a non-coherent system?
I am reading Documentation/DMA-API.txt which has some discussion about
non-coherent systems to see if I can get a handle on this.
> What hardware are you using anyway?
I am using the MDS-810 platform supplied by Momentum Data Systems which
contains a Phillips/Nexperia pnx8950 chip. That chip contains a MIPS32
core. http://www.mds.com/products/product.asp?prod=MDS-810
Thanks again,
Jon
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