[PATCH v2 0/7] of: setup dma parameters using dma-ranges and dma-coherent

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Apr 21 11:19:11 PDT 2014


Dear Santosh Shilimkar,

On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:35:25 -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:

> > In mach-mvebu, what we do is that we register a bus notifier on the
> > platform bus, so that we can set our custom DMA operations for all
> > platform devices in the system. Should this be done in a different way
> > after your series?
> > 
> Nope. Since you have a very custom SOC specific case, you can continue
> what you are doing.

True, but as you said, the goal is to remove machine code. So instead
of having just a 'dma-coherent' property, shouldn't we have a
dma-method property, which could be dma-method = "coherent" or
dma-method = "marvell,io-coherent" and therefore allow the DT binding
to cover more use cases than just the default non-coherent and coherent
DMA operations?

Best regards,

Thomas
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