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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:11:06 -0600
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer)
Cc:        Chuck Paterson <cp@bsdi.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: removal of kvtop() on i386 
Message-ID:  <200007171710.LAA12245@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:42:08 %2B0200." <20000717184208.B26484@cichlids.cichlids.com> 

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>Thus spake Chuck Paterson (cp@bsdi.com):
>
>> 	Has anybody though about how to change this for
>> architectures like Sparc where the whole idea of handing
>> a physical address to the drivers on a bus doesn't apply, and
>> where a unmapping/cache flushing operation must be done
>> at io completion.

...

>How do other *BSDs do that?

Bus DMA.

--
Justin



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