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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:54:54 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        'freebsd-arch' <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Wrapper API for static bus_dma allocations
Message-ID:  <67604.1422568494@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <2800970.jY4xzTy9Hz@ralph.baldwin.cx>
References:  <2800970.jY4xzTy9Hz@ralph.baldwin.cx>

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In message <2800970.jY4xzTy9Hz@ralph.baldwin.cx>, John Baldwin writes:

>The bus_dma API to allocate a chunk of static DMA'able memory (e.g. for 
>descriptor rings) can be a bit obtuse [...]

Isn't it time we take a good hard stare at all of the bus_dma API,
and refactor it into something a lot more compact ?

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