[Patch v4] OMAP: sDMA driver: descriptor autoloading feature

Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Mon Jan 4 02:10:05 EST 2010


> -----Original Message-----
> From: svenkatr at gmail.com [mailto:svenkatr at gmail.com] On Behalf Of S, Venkatraman
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 12:33 PM
> To: Tony Lindgren
> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux; Shilimkar, Santosh; Kevin Hilman; linux-omap at vger.kernel.org; linux-
> arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: [Patch v4] OMAP: sDMA driver: descriptor autoloading feature
> 
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> > * Venkatraman S <svenkatr at ti.com> [091211 07:01]:
> >> Here is the most updated version of the patch (thanks to Russell's
> >> review). This patch is applicable to OMAP4xxx as well as OMAP3630
> >> Reference to previous posts
> >> v1  http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=125012097403050&w=2
> >> v2  http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=125137152606644&w=2
> >> v3  http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/45408/
> >
> > Do you have a patch for drivers/mmc/host/omap_hsmmc.c to
> > use this feature? Or some other driver?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tony
> 
> I am about to start working on omap_hsmmc to use the descriptor load
> feature. If the DMA changes are acceptable, I can post the driver
> patch as well.

I don't think doing this for hsmmc makes any sense considering, the IC in which DMA descriptor
is available( OMAP3630 and OMAP4), the HSMMC controller is already equipped with its dedicated 
DMA controller (ADMA)

Regards,
Santosh



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