The cachepredma() and cachepostdma() functions allow you to flush the data cache before and after Direct Memory Access. Typically only DMA device drivers benefit from this. These functions take the processor type, possible MMU and cache mode into account. When no cache is available they end up doing nothing. These functions can be replaced with ones suitable for different cache hardware. Refer to the ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Includes and Autodocs for implementation specifics. Since DMA device drivers read and write directly to memory, they are effected by the copyback feature of the mc68040 (explained below). using DMA with CopyBack mode requires a cache flush. If a DMA device needs to read RAM via DMA, it must make sure that the data in the caches has been written to memory first, by calling cachepredma(). in case of a write to memory, the DMA device should first clear the caches with CachePreDMA(), write the data and flush the caches again with cachepostdma().