BCM4321 support
Michael Büsch
m at bues.ch
Mon Aug 29 19:46:35 EDT 2011
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:36:20 -0500
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> wrote:
> The firmware has its own private memory and it shares some memory with the host
> CPU
The firmware does not share any memory with the host CPU. The memory is called
"shared memory", but that is a misnomer. The host CPU accesses that memory
by memory mapped I/O. Firmware can do DMA only indirectly through the
TX and RX engines.
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Greetings, Michael.
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