as the Shark's CS8900 Ethernet, which want to use the DMA controller in
this mode (as opposed to single mode).
[Editor's note: committed from a Shark using a new bus_dma back-end
and a CS8900 driver converted to use the MI code :-]
a struct device * corresponding to the ISA bus device. The ISA DMA
controller driver functions have been renamed and now take a struct
isa_dma_state *, and are called indirectly by machine-dependent code
which provides the DMA state.
These changes allow e.g. `ofisa' (the OpenFirmware configuration
mechanism for the ISA bus, used by e.g. Sharks) to use the MI ISA
DMA controller code.
- It is now possible to handle devices that want "looping" DMA,
e.g. the SoundBlaster correctly. The WSS and SB drivers use this.
To do this several new methods were introduced in audio_hw_if.
- Different silence handling (forced by previous change).
- The audio driver can now be mmap()-ed, but due to problems in
the VM system only for writing for now.
- The OSS (Linux) audio emulation takes advantage of some of the
new features.
mycroft