Re: [RFC 0/2] ARM: DMA-mapping & IOMMU integration

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On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:30:44AM +0900, KyongHo Cho wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm sure that the graphics people will disagree with you on that.
> > Having the frame buffer mapped in write-combine mode is rather
> > important when you want to efficiently output videos from your
> > CPU.
>
> I agree with you.
> But I am discussing about dma_alloc_writecombine() in ARM.
> You can see that only ARM and AVR32 implement it and there are few
> drivers which use it.
> No function in dma_map_ops corresponds to dma_alloc_writecombine().
> That's why Marek tried to add 'alloc_writecombine' to dma_map_ops.

FWIW, on ARMv6 and later hardware, the dma_alloc_coherent() provides
writecombine memory (i.e. Normal Noncacheable), so no need for
dma_alloc_writecombine(). On earlier architectures it is creating
Strongly Ordered mappings (no writecombine).

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