sjur.brandel...@stericsson.com writes: > From: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandel...@stericsson.com> > > Add feature VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_DMA_MEM. If the architecture has > DMA support and this feature bit is set, the virtio data buffers > will be allocated from DMA memory. If the device requests > the feature VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_DMA_MEM, but the architecture > don't support DMA the driver's probe function will fail. > > This is needed for using virtio_console from the remoteproc > framework.
Sorry for the back and forth, I've been pondering MST's points. If we make a new dma-multiport device (eg. ID 11), how ugly is the code? It would be a virtio console with DMA buffers and no console, just the multiport stuff. This would have no impact on the current spec for virtio console. Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
