Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:34:56 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> Subject: Re: de-dma uaudio Message-ID: <425ED3F0.70603@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050414161546.kwroviadwsw8k0w0@netchild.homeip.net> References: <20050410195645.GA2178@cnd.mcgill.ca> <20050414.021552.343134310.kazuhito@ph.noda.tus.ac.jp> <20050413172534.GF2178@cnd.mcgill.ca> <20050414161546.kwroviadwsw8k0w0@netchild.homeip.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> wrote: > >> On Apr 13, Kazuhito HONDA wrote: >> >>> Your idea is a fundamental and good one. >> > >> Great. I've mentor approval to commit this, and I will >> do so friday or saturday. > > > Do I understand this patch right: it changes from DMA access to non-DMA > access? > > If yes: can someone please explain me why this is a good thing? The low hardware layer already does DMA to move data out of the hardware to memory. The data gets copied from the user layer to an intermediate buffer and from there to the DMA buffers. There is no need to allocate DMA capable buffers for the intermediate layer. > > Bye, > Alexander. >
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