On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:39:01AM +0000, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Jeremy writes: > >On Tue, 2006-Jan-31 22:00:21 +0000, Ian Dowse wrote: > >>In the case of USB, there is actually no need for it to perform > >>large contiguous allocations because the host controllers all support > >>some limited scatter-gather functionality so they can mostly access > >>the caller's memory buffer directly via bus_dmamap_load(). This is > >>something I implemented a year or to ago but I haven't got around > >>to finishing the last few details of the patch yet. > > > >I'd looked into the specs far enough to determine that this was > >possible but haven't looked at how difficult it would be to implement > >it. I think this is a preferable solution and would be interested in > >helping you finish your patch. > > I've updated > > http://people.freebsd.org/~iedowse/usb.diff > > with the latest patch I have. I think there are still one or two > places where DMAADDR() calls have been replaced without all the > necessary logic to handle programming segment information into the > host controller descriptors (e.g. the "XXX, fixme" comment in > ohci.c). > > I only updated the OHCI interrupt transfer code and the sl811hs > driver recently so there may be problems there, but most of the > older changes have had a reasonable amount of testing as I've been > using them on a low-memory soekris box for a couple of years.
Do you have a RELENG_5 version of that patch too? (And i guess others would be interested in a RELENG_6 one as well? :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
