[PATCH v5 1/3] ARM: add CPPI 4.1 DMA support
Sergei Shtylyov
sshtylyov at mvista.com
Tue Jan 4 13:50:43 EST 2011
Hello.
Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:41:05PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> OMAP GPIOs have many usages or use cases, so we can use gpiolib
>> to simplify access to GPIOs. If GPIOs has only one usage or use case,
>> it is not necessary to access GPIOs by gpiolib.
>> Now this kind of DMA controllers are only used by MUSB or only for
>> MUSB, so it doesn't matter to access them by dmaengine or not.
> Not entirely true. TUSB uses OMAP system DMA and AFAICT CPPI is used
> also for ethernet.
Yes, but the CPPI registers are not compatible between MUSB and EMAC, only
the descriptors are, AFAIK.
WBR, Sergei
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