Re: [RFC] Using the DMAEngine API for scatter/gather operations

2009-05-14 Thread Ira Snyder
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:27:17AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 09:13 -0700, Ira Snyder wrote: > > Hello all. > > > > I'm working on a driver for a custom board (based heavily on the > > MPC8349EMDS board) to dump data out of onboard FPGA's. I need to use the > > onboard DMA

Re: [RFC] Using the DMAEngine API for scatter/gather operations

2009-05-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 09:13 -0700, Ira Snyder wrote: > Hello all. > > I'm working on a driver for a custom board (based heavily on the > MPC8349EMDS board) to dump data out of onboard FPGA's. I need to use the > onboard DMA controller for this, mostly due to data transfer rate and > timing require

[RFC] Using the DMAEngine API for scatter/gather operations

2009-05-14 Thread Ira Snyder
Hello all. I'm working on a driver for a custom board (based heavily on the MPC8349EMDS board) to dump data out of onboard FPGA's. I need to use the onboard DMA controller for this, mostly due to data transfer rate and timing requirements. Of course, I'd like to "play nice" with the existing Linu