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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:11:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bus_space_foo and bus_dmamap_foo 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901051010170.21476-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9901051806230.391-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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> > 
> > Sounds like the Solaris DKI/DDI. Will you be making the bus_space handles
> > hierarchical and bidirectional? That is, you can do bus_space_XXX for
> > a CPU's access to i/o or memory space on a PCI device, but can you also
> > see about a PCI device's view of memory (or another PCI device) such that
> > dma handles are managed similarily?
> 
> I'm not sure that this fits with the existing bus_dma apis which we have
> taken from NetBSD.  I wasn't planning to change that api much if at all.

No, it doesn't fit with the existing NetBSD model.

> It does make sense for the two to be at least similar though.

To quote Eric Allman, "Well, *I* would certainly think so".

-matt






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