MCA Driver Programming Interface
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MCA Driver Programming Interface

Alan Cox

<alan@redhat.com>

David Weinehall

Chris Beauregard

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Known Bugs And Assumptions

3. Public Functions Provided

mca_find_adapter - scan for adapters
mca_find_unused_adapter - scan for unused adapters
mca_read_stored_pos - read POS register from boot data
mca_read_pos - read POS register from card
mca_write_pos - read POS register from card
mca_set_adapter_name - Set the description of the card
mca_is_adapter_used - check if claimed by driver
mca_mark_as_used - claim an MCA device
mca_mark_as_unused - release an MCA device

4. DMA Functions Provided

mca_enable_dma - channel to enable DMA on
mca_disable_dma - channel to disable DMA on
mca_set_dma_addr - load a 24bit DMA address
mca_get_dma_addr - load a 24bit DMA address
mca_set_dma_count - load a 16bit transfer count
mca_get_dma_residue - get the remaining bytes to transfer
mca_set_dma_io - set the port for an I/O transfer
mca_set_dma_mode - set the DMA mode

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