[PATCH] dmaengine: add CSR SiRFprimaII DMAC driver

Barry Song 21cnbao at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 21:47:18 EDT 2011


2011/9/8 Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij at gmail.com>:
> 2011/9/7 Koul, Vinod <vinod.koul at intel.com>:
>> On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 22:41 -0700, Barry Song wrote:
>>
>>> +config SIRF_DMA
>>> +     tristate "CSR SiRFprimaII DMA support"
>>> +     depends on ARCH_PRIMA2
>>> +     select DMA_ENGINE
>>> +     help
>>> +       Enable support for the CSR SiRFprimaII DMA engine.
>>
>> How different is it from the other primacell based DMA drivers, and why
>> wouldn't it make sense to use/modify one of them?
>
> Hehe it looks to me like primall has no relation to PrimeCell, just
> confusingly similar names :-)

yes. only with the word "prima", which is the mach name. it has
nothing to do with primecell.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
-barry



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