[PATCH 06/13] DMAENGINE: driver for the ARM PL080/PL081 PrimeCells

[Jassi Brar]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Maurus Cuelenaere
<mcuelenaere at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op 15-06-10 12:45, Jassi Brar schreef:
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com> wrote:
>>> Linus Walleij wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This creates a DMAengine driver for the ARM PL080/PL081 PrimeCells
>>>> based on the implementation earlier submitted by Peter Pearse.
>>>> This is working like a charm for memcpy on the PB11MPCore, but
>>>> slave DMA to devices is still not working.
>>>>
>>>> This DMA controller is used in mostly unmodified form in the ARM
>>>> RealView and Versatile platforms, in the ST-Ericsson Nomadik, and
>>>> in the ST SPEAr platform.
>>>>
>>>> It has been converted to use the header from the Samsung PL080
>>>> derivate instead of its own defintions, and can potentially support
>>>> several controllers in the same system.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Peter Pearse <peter.pearse at arm.com>
>>>> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux at fluff.org>
>>>> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>
>>>
>>> Looks good, but please give me some time to test on the board(SMDK6410).
>>> If any problem, let you know. Of course no problem, will ack.
>> Samsung doesn't use the DMA API, so this driver is unlikely to work.
>
> It doesn't indeed, but it could be adapted to be a wrapper around the DMA engine API.
> Or even better, the drivers could be adapted to use that API.
I don't particularly like the idea of making Samsung's drivers use the DMA API.
IMHO the S3C dma api is better atm.