[PATCH] imx: dma: remove SDMA_IS_MERGED

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 17:27:21 EST 2010


Hi Sascha,

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
....
>> I also generated the SDMA firmware (sdma-imx51-to1.bin) via your sdma
>> tool and placed it under /lib/firmware, but the result is the same
>> with or without a valid firmware: when request_firmware is called the
>> following crash happens:
>
> I tried to reproduce this today. Instead of crashing my kernel simply
> hangs. This seems to be because request_firmware waits till the firmware
> appears which never happens. I remember a crash like this though, I
> think it has something to do with the firmware related kconfig options.
> I hope to find a time slot later this week to track this down.

Could you please share your .config?

I would like to compare what may be causing the different behaviours
we are seeing.

Thanks,

Fabio Estevam



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