On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:05 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Is there a DMAEngine implementation for the A20?
>> Audio drivers will want that.
>
> Emilio (CC-ed) has been working on one, and he pushed out a branch I think.
>
> Depending on how much time it would take to implement the audio drivers,
> I think it'd be a good device to stress test it. EMAC is another.

How is this stmmac GbE driver Cubietruck is using now doing DMA? Or is
it using DMA?


>
>> I hope there is DMAEngine support around somewhere. Last time I tried
>> doing one (LPC3130) I worked on it for two months and then gave up.
>> It's not that implementing DMAEngine is that difficult, the switch to
>> DMAEngine had the side effect of forcing almost every LPC3130 device
>> driver to be rewritten and that was too much for me to do alone.
>
> Most drivers are generic I think. Most of the devices really needing DMA
> don't have mainline drivers at all. That includes display, HDMI and audio.
>
>
> Cheers
> ChenYu
>
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