[PATCH 0/4] ARM/DT: edma: Get IP configuration from hardware

Sekhar Nori nsekhar at ti.com
Tue May 13 01:33:28 PDT 2014


On Tuesday 13 May 2014 01:13 PM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are requesting redundant information via DT for the driver since the very same
> data is available in the HW: by reading and decoding the content of CCCFG
> register we can get:
> Number of channels: NUM_DMACH
> Number of regions: NUM_REGN
> Number of slots (PaRAM sets): NUM_PAENTRY
> Number of TC/EQ: NUM_EVQUE
> 
> So these does not need to be provided by the DT binding.
> 
> The driver will no longer look for these properties from DT and they can be
> removed from the binding documentation and from the dtsi files as well.
> The change will not introduce regression when new kernel is booted using older
> DTB (since we just ignore the mentioned properties).

Peter, to which baseline do these patches apply? I tried applying them
to v3.15-rc5 but 1/4 doesn't apply cleanly.

Thanks,
Sekhar



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