On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 06:45 -0800, munees waran wrote: > Hi Arjan, > > I refered dma-mapping.txt. It is talking about cosistent/streaming > mapping of the buffer. > " pci_map_single()" Is this mapping alone will do DMA transfer ? no > > How do initiate the dma operation ? There is not specific API call for > that. this is actually device specific. In a PCI world, the PCI device initiates the DMA, always. As such, your PCI device will have some way of starting to do dma.... -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
