[PATCH] dma: imx-dma: Add oftree support

Markus Pargmann mpa at pengutronix.de
Sat Feb 23 11:57:48 EST 2013


Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 02:46:06PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 22 February 2013, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> > Adding devicetree support for imx-dma driver. Use driver name for
> > function 'imx_dma_is_general_purpose' because the devicename for
> > devicetree initialized devices is different.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa at pengutronix.de>
> 
> Hi Markus,
> 
> Please make sure you are following the generic dma binding from
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma.txt that is getting added
> in Linux-3.9.
> 
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-imx-dma.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> > +* Freescale Direct Memory Access (DMA) Controller for i.MX
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > +- compatible : Should be "fsl,<chip>-dma". chip can be imx1, imx21 or imx27
> > +- reg : Should contain DMA registers location and length
> > +- interrupts : First item should be DMA interrupt, second one is optional and
> > +  should contain DMA Error interrupt
> > +
> > +dma: dma at 10001000 {
> > +       compatible = "fsl,imx27-dma";
> > +       reg = <0x10001000 0x1000>;
> > +       interrupts = <32 33>;
> > +};
> 
> In particular, the "#dma-cells" property is required here, along with
> dma-channels and dma-requests. You also need to describe the format
> of the "dmas" property in slave drivers referring to this node.
> In a lot of cases, you only need a single cell there, which is the
> request line number.
> 
> 	Arnd

Thanks, I changed the patch to use the generic DMA bindings, see V2.
However I couldn't find any information about the number of supported
DMA requests.

Markus

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