Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:01:37 +0400 | From | Sergei Shtylyov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 01/10] ARM: davinci: move private EDMA API to arm/common |
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Hello.
On 01-02-2013 22:59, Matt Porter wrote:
>>>>> Move mach-davinci/dma.c to common/edma.c so it can be used >>>>> by OMAP (specifically AM33xx) as well.
>>>> I think this should rather go to drivers/dma/?
>>> No, this is the private EDMA API. It's the analogous thing to >>> the private OMAP dma API that is in plat-omap/dma.c. The actual >>> dmaengine driver is in drivers/dma/edma.c as a wrapper around >>> this...same way OMAP DMA engine conversion is being done.
>> Keeps me wondering why we couldn't have the same with CPPI 4.1 when I proposed >> that, instead of waiting indefinitely for TI to convert it to drivers/dma/ >> directly. We could have working MUSB DMA on OMAP-L1x/Sitara all this time... Sigh.
> That is a shame. Yeah, I've pointed out that I was doing this exactly > the same way as was acceptable for the OMAP DMA conversion since it was > in RFC. The reasons are sound since in both cases, we have many drivers > to convert that need to continue using the private DMA APIs.
In case of CPPI 4.1, we'd only have to convert MUSB DMA driver. Other in-tree CPPI 4.1 having SoCs don't use it for anything but MUSB -- it even is sub-block of their MUSB device, AFAIK (I maybe wrong about Sitaras -- I don't know them well).
> -Matt
WBR, Sergei
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