MX3 SDMA?

[Magnus Lilja]

Hi Daniel,

2009/11/19 Daniel Mack <daniel at caiaq.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder whether anyone is currently working on porting the SDMA engie
> from Freescale's BSPs to mainline?
>
> If not, what would be a sane approach to start that? From what I've
> seen, there is support specifically for the SoC's on-chip peripherals
> which could be implemented with an API similar to the clock framework
> (ie, matching via device names).
>
> As this engine features an own RISC processor and is a huge monster, I
> would assume starting with supporting a subset of features would make
> sense.
>
> Plans, ideas?

The last attempt was made by someone in September but I didn't see any
result at all:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2009-September/000886.html
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2009-September/001024.html
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2009-October/001806.html


Regards, Magnus