Re: [PATCH v7 01/10] ARM: davinci: move private EDMA API toarm/common

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Tue Feb 05 2013 - 13:29:07 EST


* Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> [130204 07:46]:
>
> Current DMA abstraction is quite poor, for example there's no way to
> compile support for multiple DMA engines. Code also makes certain, IMO
> unnecessary, assumptions about the underlying DMA engine (abstraction is
> poor, as said above but it we could follow MUSB's programming guide when
> it comes to programming DMA transfers).
>
> Considering all of the above, it's far better to use DMA engine and get
> rid of all the mess.

How about just disable MUSB DMA support if ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM for now?
That way MUSB can be fixed up first to support ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
using PIO while sorting out the DMA related issues.

Regards,

Tony
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