[PATCH 1/2] i.MX DMA: Add support for 2D transfers.

[javier Martin]

Hi Sascha,

On 9 February 2012 15:17, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 05:11:13PM +0100, Javier Martin wrote:
>> DMAC present in i.MX2 and i.MX1 chips have two
>> 2D configuration slots that any DMA channel can
>> use to make 2D DMA transfers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martin <javier.martin at vista-silicon.com>
>
> My problem with this patch is that it adds new code to
> arch/arm/mach-imx/dma-v1.c.
> The original intention of having a legacy driver in arch/arm/mach-imx/dma-v1.c
> and a dmaengine driver in drivers/dma was that we move remove the
> arch/arm parts to drivers/dma once all users have switched to the new
> API.

I wasn't aware of that. I couldn't find any warning comment in the
code or anything.

>I fixed the sound drivers and the mxcmmc driver already.  We
> currently have the imxmmc driver and the i.MX1/2 camera drivers left
> in the tree.

I know, I tested those changes myself and works properly. Thank you.

>The imxmmc driver is broken for ages and I think we can
> remove it when nobody takes care of putting it back to work. You seem to
> work on the i.MX2 camera driver and thus you should be able to fix it
> (do you use DMA here or the EMMA engine?).

Currently i.MX2 camera does not use DMAs. You removed support for it
recently (which I found very convenient) and I don't have plans to use
them. This means that there is no i.MX2 driver using legacy code out
there.

>This leaves the i.MX1 driver
> and I have no possibility to fix it. I once pinged Paulius about this
> issue but appearently nothing has happened.
> I think we should start cleaning this up even if we risk breaking
> something. Otherwise we are stuck with the legacy driver forever.

Let me explain the situation I have here (which is a summarize of what
I have already explained to Vinod):

We have a video processing chain which involves a tvp5150, mx2 camera
capture driver and and intermediate deinterlacing driver (mem2mem).

Deinterlacing driver requires a full working dmaengine API and
interleaved transfer support. As a consequence our development process
is organized as follows:

- Step 1 (already submitted):
[PATCH v3] dmaengine: Add support for MEMCPY for imx-dma.

This step is important for us since it gives us access to the dmatest
module and allows to develop a first prototype of the driver which
just copies the content of one buffer into another.

- Step 2 (also submitted):
[PATCH 1/2] i.MX DMA: Add support for 2D transfers.
[PATCH 2/2] dmaengine: i.MX: Add support for interleaved transfers.

With this step we have know a first working version of a driver which
actually does video deinterlacing. However, since current dmaengine
support for imx only regards a single descriptor, this code is quite
ugly and dirty.

- Step 3 (developing):
dmaengine: i.MX: Support multiple descriptors.

The problem here is that, after 6 days from my last patch, I have
Step3 nearly finished (I was just testing it when I received your
e-mail). According to your suggestion, I would have to rewrite all my
code in order to drop the arch/arm file. However, we are targeting for
merge window 3.4 and have already agreed with Guennadi some cleanup
patches for the mx2_camera driver.

I know that you want that file to be dropped and I understand, but my
schedule is so tight that I can't afford a complete rewriting right
now. I hope you can undesrtand too.

Regards.
-- 
Javier Martin
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