Kevin,

As I pointed out the queuing model has changed between the existing CPPI3.0 DMA 
implementation in the kernel and the new CPPI4.1 DMA implementation.  There are 
associated changes relating to initialization sequence.

Given this I think we can go ahead with the existing implementation from Sergei 
(for cppi4.1) and if need be in future merge the implementation into a single 
CPPI DMA implementation.

Can we follow this approach in that way we will be able to enable the community 
to start using DA8xx platform sooner.

regards
swami

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To: David Brownell
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] DaVinci: add support for CPPI 4.1

David Brownell <[email protected]> writes:

> On Monday 23 March 2009, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> I was just trying to outline the large difference between 3.0 and 4.1
>> that warrants a new driver, so I'm not sure why TI people started to argue...
>
> I think the pushback was on your statement that they're
> so different as to be incompatible through the only
> programming interface (musb_hdrc) that will use this.

So, if I understand this correctly, they are indeed quite different,
but none of those differences are actually relevant to the programming
interface actually used.

So, that begs the original question:

Why can't the current version simply be extended instead of creating
an entirely new driver?

Kevin

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