On 6 Nov 2002, Eric Anholt wrote: > I've been trying to figure out how to use the bus_dma* functions in the > DRM. What I'm working on at the moment is the ATI PCIGART. How it > works right now is an ioctl is done which mallocs a chunk of memory (up > to 32MB). Later, the ioctl that sets up dma allocates a physically > contiguous 32K of memory which contains pointers (by vtophys) into the > pages of the 32MB. The physical address of that 32K is then written to > the card. The 32MB is mapped by both the kernel and userspace (the X > Server). > > So, I'm trying to convert it to busdma. I'm making a tag (is making it > without having a parent tag a bad thing?) for the 32K contiguous, > allocing 32K, and loading, with a callback to drop the dma address into > a place of my choice. However, how do I do the 32MB? It only has to > consist of pages, with nothing else special for alignment. For > nsegments in bus_dma_tag_create it says it can't be more than 250-300, > while I've got possibly 8192 segments. I'm thinking I would have to > make a tag for the 32MB, allocate it, then loop and create PAGE_SIZE, > nsegments=1 tags with the 32MB as parent, and bus_dmamap_load on those > tags with offsets from the first map's vaddr and PAGE_SIZE long. Am I > totally off base here? Is this even possible?
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