Re: Problems with Freescale DMA driver

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 12:50:26 EST


Ira Snyder wrote:

> In this case, I probably would like to reserve a DMA channel for my
> exclusive use. That way I won't run into problems by programming the DMA
> by hand.

If you write your own DMA driver, the current method for reserving a DMA channel
is to change the compatible property for that channel in the device tree to
something other than "fsl,elo-dma-channel" (or "fsl,eloplus-dma-channel").

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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