On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:23 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

Like some of the other IP blocks (EHCI/OHCI, AHCI, MMC), GMAC has it's
own hardware DMA engine.

>>> 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.

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