[RFC 00/12] OMAP DMA engine conversion

Vinod Koul vinod.koul at linux.intel.com
Tue May 15 04:59:27 EDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 08:41 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 09:49:24AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 17:04 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > For the full text, please see 
> > > 
> > > http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20120418.100954.7fa7acf8.en.html
> > > 
> > > This version contains updates for some of the comments received from the
> > > previous round, and adds the OMAP1/2 MMC and SPI drivers to the conversion.
> > > 
> > > I've also added a note to feature-removal noting that the existing APIs
> > > will be removed around 2013 - I'm planning January for that at the
> > > moment.  Having drivers around which are unconverted blocks further work
> > > on the DMA engine conversion, so it's actually important that we get
> > > as many drivers converted as soon as possible.
> > > 
> > > Anything which isn't converted will probably have its DMA code removed,
> > > or if that results in the driver not being usable, the driver itself
> > > will be removed.
> > > 
> > > This series is still in RFC mode...
> > Hi Russell,
> > 
> > What is the state of this series, would be good to have this merged in
> > upcoming merge window.
> 
> It's not ready for merging.  While it allows some of the OMAP drivers
> to be converted, there's others which need changes to omap-dma.c.
> 
> So, I'm _not_ planning to see this in for the upcoming merge window.
Okay, Thanks for the update. I am waiting for the virtual channel
support in this series.

-- 
~Vinod




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