MIPS: Add option to disable software I/O coherency.

Some MIPS controllers have hardware I/O coherency. This patch
detects those and turns off software coherency. A new kernel
command line option also allows the user to manually turn
software coherency on or off.

Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/dma-coherence.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/dma-coherence.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..242cbb3ca582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/dma-coherence.h
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/*
+ * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
+ * License.  See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
+ * for more details.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2006  Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
+ *
+ */
+#ifndef __ASM_DMA_COHERENCE_H
+#define __ASM_DMA_COHERENCE_H
+
+extern int coherentio;
+extern int hw_coherentio;
+
+#endif