[PATCH v3 07/21] ARM: dts: parse DMA config in pxamci

Sergei Ianovich ynvich at gmail.com
Wed Dec 18 19:50:41 EST 2013


Daniel,

On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 23:37 +0400, Sergei Ianovich wrote:
> The existing PXA MMC driver cannot get DMA channels in a proper
> way from the respective device tree binding.
> 
> This patch provides temporary workaround which allows using the
> existing driver in DT machines by pointing to the proper
> dmaengine-based "marvell,pdma-1.0" DMA.
> 
> Even though the new DMA provider is not present we can parse device node
> attributes manually and use channel numbers to acquire DMA channel
> from the existing non-dmaengine provider.
> 
> When Daniel's DMA series is merged there will be no need to manually
> parse for "dmas" and this patch can be safely reverted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Ianovich <ynvich at gmail.com>
> CC: Daniel Mack <zonque at gmail.com>
> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
>    v2..v3
>    * split into good (PATCH 07/21) and temporary (this one) parts
> 
>    v1..v2
>    * add binding for next-gen dma controller
>    * use correct dma declararion
>    * number changed from 5 to 3

Could you please comment on this solution for PXA DMA?

There may appear new, but it remains the last open review comment for
the series at the moment.




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