de-dma uaudio

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Thu Apr 14 09:35:49 PDT 2005


Mathew Kanner <mat at cnd.mcgill.ca> wrote:

>> Do I understand this patch right: it changes from DMA access to non-DMA
>> access?
>>
>> If yes: can someone please explain me why this is a good thing?
>
> 	Upper layer does not use DMA.  It just isn't use so why
> allocate special memeory for it.

And our USB stack ([eou]hci) can't ever grow the feature of doing DMA?

Bye,
Alexander.

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