Sergei Shtylyov <[email protected]> writes: > Hello. > > David Brownell wrote: > >> Some of the comments about my earlier EDMA patches touched on issues >> in that programming interface, like: >> >> - The single call to allocate DMA resources is overly complex. >> >> - Its programming model doesn't match the hardware well: talking >> about master vs. slave, not channels and parameter RAM; confusing >> those two resource types (especially when allocating); etc. >> >> - Since the calls used a "davinci_" prefix, they wouldn't be very >> appropriate for the DMA in the OMAP-L137 chip. >> > > We were going to move the generic part of > arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c (alomg with other common code b/w so > called OMAP-L1x and DaVinci) to arch/arm/plat-davinci/ but the rename > seems reasonable anyway.
I keep hearing things like this, but have not yet seen any patches, or technical arguments for doing so. I am planning a push of the core davinci code for the next merge window, so if changes like that are expected to go in, I expect to see some patches and arguments *very* soon. Kevin _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
