linux-kernel - Re: Question about DMA

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:22:49 +0100
From:	"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@...il.com>
To:	"Haavard Skinnemoen" <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
Cc:	"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about DMA

Hello Haavard,

On Jan 28, 2008 10:21 AM, Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:55:58 +0100
> "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > My DMA controller has very little in common with ISA DMA one. But I'd like to
> > use it in a driver. This driver can do DMA but with the help of an external DMA
> > controller. It's only implement the "slave" side. So basically this driver needs
> > to configure one of the DMAC channels before transfering data.
>
> Have a look at this thread:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/23/79
>
> I'm planning to post an updated patch set this week that addresses the
> comments by Dan Williams, and that applies on top of the other DMA
> Engine patches that have been posted since then.
>
> Please let me know if you think this will work for your hardware.

Thanks for pointing this out. I currently can't look at this but I'll
try to give it
a deep look this week.

> What platform are you working on, btw?
>

SH

Thanks.
-- 
Francis
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