[PATCH v12 05/11] edma: config: Enable config options for EDMA

[Sekhar Nori]

On 6/22/2013 3:23 AM, Joel A Fernandes wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> On Friday 21 June 2013, Joel A Fernandes wrote:
>>> I think we are talking about different things, I agree the 'select
>>> DMADEVICES' can be dropped but lets please keep the default y option
>>> (not adding new select statements, just saying that if someone select
>>> DMADEVICES in menuconfig and if they're ARCH_OMAP=1 , then default to
>>> EDMA). This will simply allow people to have a default. Thanks.
>>
>> Yes, that's ok.
> 
> Ok, thanks. I will follow up with a patch in my next submissions that builds it.
> 
> Perhaps a:
> default y if 'ARCH_OMAP2PLUS'
> 
> and leave the existing as it is...
> default n if  'ARCH_DAVINCI || ARCH_OMAP1 || ARCH_OMAP2'
> 
> would make most sense to me. Basically EDMA is seen on current and all
> new OMAP2PLUS.

OMAP2PLUS devices like OMAP3/4 do not have EDMA so this is not really true.

> 
>>
>> config TI_EDMA
>>         tristate "TI EDMA support"
>>         default m if 'ARCH_DAVINCI || ARCH_OMAP1 || ARCH_OMAP2
>>         select DMA_ENGINE
>>         select DMA_VIRTUAL_CHANNELS
> 
> 
> 
> MMC depends on EDMA specially on AM33xx there's no PIO mode AFAIK. The
> 'm' option will require some initramfs to load the module when needing
> to MMC boot, I suggest lets leave it as y.

But there is no reason why it cannot work with PIO, right? Sounds like
the right fix is in driver.

Thanks,
Sekhar