[PATCH v4] dmaengine: mxs-dma: add dma support for i.MX23/28

Wolfram Sang w.sang at pengutronix.de
Fri Feb 25 05:55:30 EST 2011


Hi Shawn,

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:34:19PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> This patch adds dma support for Freescale MXS-based SoC i.MX23/28,
> including apbh-dma and apbx-dma.
> 
> * apbh-dma and apbx-dma are supported in the driver as two mxs-dma
>   instances.
> 
> * apbh-dma is different between mx23 and mx28, hardware version
>   register is used to differentiate.
> 
> * mxs-dma supports pio function besides data transfer.  The driver
>   uses dma_data_direction DMA_NONE to identify the pio mode, and
>   steals sgl and sg_len to get pio words and numbers from clients.
> 
> * mxs dmaengine has some very specific features, like sense function
>   and the special NAND support (nand_lock, nand_wait4ready).  These
>   are too specific to implemented in generic dmaengine driver.
> 
> * The driver refers to imx-sdma and only a single descriptor is
>   statically assigned to each channel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at freescale.com>
> ---

What are (roughly) the changes since last version?

Regards,

   Wolfram

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