[PATCH 4/8] ARM i.MX: add SDMA driver

[Lothar Waßmann]

Hi,

Timur Tabi writes:
> On Tuesday, August 10, 2010, Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de>
> > Apart from this I would also welcome if the whole driver could be
> > adapted to the drivers/dma dmaengine API as pointed out by Linus
> > Walleij.  The dma controller support for the Power Architecture chips of
> > Freescale do implement this API, so this would also be a great step
> > towards code unification of drivers here.
> 
> The Freescale PowerPC and ARM DMA controllers are completely
> different, so I don't see how the drivers could be unified.
> 
The DMA API should abstract away the differences in the hardware
so that device drivers could use DMA without having to know on what
hardware they are running.


Lothar Waßmann
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