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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2007 08:43:45 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 31st address line sometimes not used on EHCI/UHCI/OHCI
Message-ID:  <200705280843.45808.hselasky@c2i.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070527.145412.-1597331197.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <200705272235.46048.hselasky@c2i.net> <20070527.145412.-1597331197.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Sunday 27 May 2007 22:54, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <200705272235.46048.hselasky@c2i.net>
>
>             Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> writes:
> : I've got some reports back that some USB host controllers do not support
> : transferring memory from a location higher than 2GB.
> :
> : What should we do about this?
> :
> : Should we limit all USB DMA allocations to the lower 2GB of the memory?
>
> busdma should be managing this behind the scenes.  You shouldn't care,
> as the problematical usb controllers, if any, can do the bouncing as
> required.  We need to get the hierarchical bus tagging stuff more
> fully integrated, then we'd get this for free.

Yes, I just changed the lowaddr when I allocated the tag, and that did the 
trick!

>
> Of course, you'd have to stop using contigmalloc to allocate all the
> memory for usb.  That won't work on some of the embedded platforms we
> have, for example, because memory on them isn't as fungible as it is
> on i386 and amd64.

My new USB stack has been using "bus_dmamem" for quite a while.

--HPS



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