[PATCH v2 1/3] mtd: rawnand: cadence: support deferred prob when DMA is not ready

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Tue Feb 4 01:20:17 PST 2025


Hello,

> My apologies for the confusion.
> Slave DMA terminology used in cadence nand controller bindings and
> driver is indeed confusing.  
>
> To answer your question it is, 
> 1 - External DMA (Generic DMA controller).
>
> Nand controller IP do not have embedded DMA controller (2 - peripheral DMA). 
>
> FYR, how external DMA is used. 
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.13.1/source/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cadence-nand-controller.c#L1962

In this case we should have a dmas property (and perhaps dma-names), no?

Miquèl



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