> As a note, the DMA controllers in the ARM system-on-chip's can > byte-swap, do 90deg rotation of 2D arrays, transparency (probably > intened for image blitting, but still available on any kind of > transfers), etc., and most importantly issue interrupts on reaching > different points of a transfer. It is not worth worrying about them > in this API. I have been for some time wanting to make a separate api > called soc_dma whose task would be using simply memcpy (or zero-copy) > in the most basic case (interrupts off, no transparency, > same-endianness endpoints), as these properties are common for DMA on > the TI OMAPs, the Intel PXAs and the Samsung S3Cs (which otherwise > have little in common).
Are you sure you aren't confusing the DMA engine itelf (which is just annother peripheral) with a mechanism for allowing dma engines access to the system. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
