Re: AVR32 architecture patch against Linux 2.6.18-rc1 available

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On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:34:52 +0100
David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 16:13 +0200, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:

> > As I understand it, though, drivers/dma is mostly for
> > memory-to-memory to transfers, while what I really need is
> > memory-to-hardware and hardware-to-memory transfers.
> 
> With MMIO those are just a not-so-special case of memory-memory,
> surely? If the new framework doesn't support that, it probably
> _should_.

Yes, but there are at least two important differences:

   * Hanshaking. The DMA controller must know when the peripheral has
     new data available/is able to accept more data. Thus, you need to
     specify which set of handshaking signals to use as well as which
     direction the data is moved.
   * One of the pointers often stays the same during the whole transfer.

I'm willing to give the drivers/dma framework a try, though, when the
time comes to forward-port the drivers that need such infrastructure.

Håvard
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