On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 04:50:54PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > Hi. > > I am new to the Linux DMA APIs. > > First, I started by reading Documentation/DMA-API.txt, > but I am confused with the term "consistent memory". Just read "coherent memory" instead - the documentation confusingly uses the two terms to refer to the same thing. I think there was a patch a while back to replace "consistent" with "coherent" in this document, though I'm not sure what happened to it. I think you have answers to your other points by others in this thread. Thanks. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dmaengine" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
