[PATCH] imx: dma: remove SDMA_IS_MERGED

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Nov 25 04:07:07 EST 2010


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:18:31PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:07:18PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > Hi Uwe,
> > 
> > 2010/11/24 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>:
> > > Hello Fabio,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 05:29:31PM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > >> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
> > >> ---
> > >> This allows imx-for-2.6.38 tree to build again.
> > > The same patch is already in Sascha's imx-for-2.6.37 branch (and so in
> > > for-next, too).  There are some more fixes in for-.37 so I'd use the
> > > for-next branch for now.
> > 
> > Thanks, I haven't noticed this. Will use for-next branch for now.
> > 
> > While at the dma topic: is anyone able to boot a kernel on MX51 with
> > IMX_SDMA=y?
> > 
> > I enabled early printk support, but no kernel messages appear after:
> > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> > 
> > This also happens on the for-next branch.
> I usually prefer just using DEBUG_LL and put
> 
> 	#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LL
> 		void printch(char);
> 		printch(c);
> 	#endif
> 
> into emit_log_char.  But I think that's only because I don't know how to
> use early printk properly.  (You might need an additional kernel
> parameter?!)

Yes, 'earlyprintk'.


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