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


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