[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: wm_adsp: Split firmware load into smaller chunks

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:28:16PM +0000, Charles Keepax wrote:
> The firmware files can be quite large and allocating the whole firmware
> a single DMA safe buffer can be problematic if the system is under a
> high memory load. Ease the requirements slightly by writing the firmware
> out in page sized chunks.

While looking at some other related stuff it occurred to me that while
this is probably what you want for your backported code for upstream you
probably want to just convert to vmalloc() - SPI will do DMA mappings in
page sized chunks in order to support this so you get a similar effect
but without needing to split into multiple physical writes so it can all
be pushed down into hardware for best performance.
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