[PATCH] ARM: add PrimeCell generic DMA to MMCI/PL180

[Linus Walleij]

2011/1/25 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>:

> The DMA controller must be programmed with the right burst size for the
> peripheral, which in this case would be 8 words, otherwise the 'last'
> burst signalling goes wrong.

Now I think I found the real bug behind this...

In the Vendor data we set this:
	.dmareg_enable		= 1 << 12, /* DMAREQCTRL */

This actually means:

DMAREQCTL: DMA requests control.
0: SREQ are generated when data to be transferred is
less than 8 words.
1: no SREQ is generated when data to be transferred
is less than 8 words, LBREQ is generated instead.

Which will work for all MMC card transfers I believe, since
these are even 512 byte multiples. No problem...

Then comes an SDIO request and it is 7 bytes so LBREQ
is emitted 7 times instead of 6 * SREQ + 1 LSREQ.

Which works if you set down the burst size to 1 byte,
firing 7 consecutive bursts each terminated with LBREQ
which the DMA controller is perfectly happy with.

So while setting the burstsize down to 1 byte works
since it matches the twisted logic of DMAREQCTL,
instead flipping the bit in DMAREQCTL to 0
if (size % 8 != 0) makes some more kind of sense.

This needs to be tested to see whether it works or
not, so I'll see what we can do.

Yours,
Linus Walleij