[PATCHv4] dmaengine: Add support for BCM2835

Florian Meier florian.meier at koalo.de
Thu Nov 14 11:14:31 EST 2013


> I mean, something closer to:
> .....

Ok :-)

>> >> I am becoming desperate anyway that this migration will ever fully
>> >> take place....
>> >
>> > Why not? It's just a matter of people like you working on this (and
>> > addressing some review comments ;)).
>>
>> The most common comment about this is that people will not put effort in
>> the upstream kernel as long as there is no comfortable way for debugging
>> in the upstream kernel (i.e. at least USB support).......
>
> Right, you need USB to have ethernet working. Still, IMHO UART (for
> console) + ethernet (for file transfer or NFS root) is the reasonable
> setup allowing you to debug further drivers in a comfortable way.

I am fine with UART and switching SD cards :-)
But apparently this is not generally accepted.

Greetings,
Florian



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