On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:44:39AM -0800, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
> parent_dmat = bus_dma_tag_parent(dev);
parent_dmat = bus_dma_tag_parent(dev, lowaddr, highaddr, maxsegments);
> bus_dma_tag_create(parent_dmat, ..., &mybuffer_dmat);
>
> What kind of situations would specifying the max number of segments be
> useful?
This is useful if the bus DMA engine supports scatter/gather itself.
This can be done IIRC on the Alpha, maybe on other architectures too.
I don't mind if we have a UNKNOWN value, e.g. 0. This is not a problem
here, but for many drivers we know this in advantage and it might be
used to allocate the segment maps in the parent tag.
Joerg
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> Chuck Tuffli
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