[PATCH 2/2] ARM: use cached memory in dma_alloc_coherent() if possible

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Dec 21 05:30:57 EST 2010


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:20:02AM +0000, Jamie Iles wrote:
> For fully coherent architectures or systems using the ARM ACP to provide
> coherency to individual device, use cached memory as the coherent
> backing rather than noncached or simply bufferable memory.

As has already been covered by Catalin, as far as we know, no one uses
the ACP yet.  Do you have a system which does?



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