I'm reading the DP8390D datasheets; I am using an RTL8029 as an initial
target.

Masa Murayama wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:54:52 -0500
>> From: Steven Stallion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> CC: Masa Murayama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [driver-discuss] DP8390 single-bus DMA alignment
>>
>>
>> IIRC Masa's driver supports all three; ISA, PCI, and PCMCIA. The
>> implementation I am working on is for PCI only.
>>
>> In 32-bit PCI configurations, Remote DMA should never be needed. In
>> fact, RSAR0 and RSAR1 are used to store the upper 16 bits of the phyaddr
>> of the buffer in 32-bit mode.
>>
> 
> Which datasheet did you read?  I'd like to read the same datasheet
> you read.
> 
> Let me know the product name of your target card, or the chipset name
> which the card employs. Although dp8390 describes various bus
> configurations, you can use only the bus configuration which the card
> product or the clone chipset implements.
> 
> -masa
> 
> 
>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>> Do we need (or will we ever need) "remote DMA"? If this is used only in
>>> ISA configurations that we don't have to support, then I think the
>>> answer is "no". (Are you supporting only PCI cards, or also ISA
>>> configurations? This part was also used in PCMCIA cards.)
>>>
>>> -- Garrett
>>>
>>>
>>> Steven Stallion wrote:
>>>> Hrmm. Reading the spec, it seems to indicate there are 2 primary modes
>>>> of operation with respect to DMA.
>>>>
>>>> The most common is a dual bus setup using both the local bus and the
>>>> remote DMA as you mentioned (which you are completely correct, remote
>>>> dma acts as a slave channel).
>>>>
>>>> The single bus option (the one I am working toward since the code will
>>>> be significantly cleaner) merges the remote DMA to form a single 32-bit
>>>> addressable channel.
>>>>
>>>> Masa Murayama wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>     
>>>>>> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:25:52 -0500
>>>>>> From: Steven Stallion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>> Cc: "Garrett D'Amore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>> Subject: [driver-discuss] DP8390 single-bus DMA alignment
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm having some problems getting DMA to align appropriately for the
>>>>>> DP8390. The DP8390's DMA engine is programmed with the upper 16 bits in
>>>>>> single bus mode (single 32-bit DMA).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After reading the documentation for ddi_dma_attr_t, it looks like
>>>>>> dma_attr_sgl can be used to accomplish this, however I can't seem to get
>>>>>> dma_cookie_t.dmac_address to align correctly:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> static ddi_dma_attr_t ne_dma_attr = {
>>>>>>  DMA_ATTR_V0,    /* dma_attr_version */
>>>>>>  0,              /* dma_attr_addr_lo */
>>>>>>  0xffffffff,     /* dma_attr_addr_hi */
>>>>>>  0xffffffff,     /* dma_attr_count_max */
>>>>>>  1,              /* dma_attr_align */
>>>>>>  0x1f,           /* dma_attr_burstsizes */
>>>>>>  1,              /* dma_attr_minxfer */
>>>>>>  0xffffffff,     /* dma_attr_maxxfer */
>>>>>>  0xffff,         /* dma_attr_sgl */
>>>>>>  1,              /* dma_attr_sgllen */
>>>>>>  1,              /* dma_attr_granular */
>>>>>>  0               /* dma_attr_flags */
>>>>>> };
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dmac.dma_address is: 0xc0190040.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>       
>>>>> I don't think you need dma attribute for dp8390.
>>>>> DP8390 doesn't have dma capability. The remote dma
>>>>> capability in the datasheet, means to access the
>>>>> internal ram in DP8390 internal bus from outside,
>>>>> i.e, sparc or i86 cpu.
>>>>> Typical NE2000 compatible cards implements the remote dma
>>>>> with IO instructions from ISA or PCI bus, that is exactly same
>>>>> with PIO we call now.
>>>>>
>>>>> -masa
>>>>>
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