Re: [PATCH v2] PL330: Add PL330 DMA controller driver

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Mar 25 2010 - 11:13:42 EST


jassi brar wrote:
Perhaps Joonyoung can simply port over the stuff
you need to this driver if you show your code.
Having worked on Samsung SoCs(with PL330 DMAC) based products, I would be
_very_ surprised if any user found this implementation useful.
Let alone testing, this implementation can't even explain usability
for fast peripherals
with shallow FIFOs. I didn't give feedback for this patch because I am
not sure if this
is the right way to go at all.

This is the wrong attitude. If it were not for a simple oversight Joonyoung's driver would already be upstream for the past two kernel releases. So you need to work together to improve that driver to incorporate what you need.

It sounds like you just need to add an extension for the arch specific dma api. At first glance this can mimic the approach taken by Nobuhiro-san with the shdma driver.

--
Dan

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