On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 16:27:26 Anton Staaf wrote: >> So then, to guide our efforts, what is a more suitable solution? >> Would you prefer we stick with the existing path of calling memalign >> and passing it the cache size by directly calling >> get_dcache_line_size? Or would you prefer something more like a >> dma_buffer_malloc function that allocates on the heap a cache line >> size aligned buffer and returns it? > > memalign() is simply a malloc() with offset fudging, so dma_buffer_malloc() is > the way to go imo. anything that involves end code having to figure out how > to align things itself is asking for pain.
Indeed, I had temporarily forgotten about memalign it seems. :/ Does it make more sense to put such a function into Lukasz's patch, or a separate patch? Thanks, Anton > -mike > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot