Re: Question about DMA

From: Francis Moreau
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 05:23:01 EST


Hello Haavard,

On Jan 28, 2008 10:21 AM, Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:55:58 +0100
> "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > My DMA controller has very little in common with ISA DMA one. But I'd like to
> > use it in a driver. This driver can do DMA but with the help of an external DMA
> > controller. It's only implement the "slave" side. So basically this driver needs
> > to configure one of the DMAC channels before transfering data.
>
> Have a look at this thread:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/23/79
>
> I'm planning to post an updated patch set this week that addresses the
> comments by Dan Williams, and that applies on top of the other DMA
> Engine patches that have been posted since then.
>
> Please let me know if you think this will work for your hardware.

Thanks for pointing this out. I currently can't look at this but I'll
try to give it
a deep look this week.

> What platform are you working on, btw?
>

SH

Thanks.
--
Francis
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