On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Overall, I feel that async_tx is perhaps justifiably receiving the > silent treatment because offload engines are not a mainstream > occurrence. Currently only people with an Xscale IOP or a PPC 440spe > [4] will notice that mainline lacks support for all the features of > their platform. I see async_tx as a nod to the embedded space where > offload engines act to make up for the absence of multi-Ghz CPUs with > streaming SIMD instructions. > For what it's worth, I'm planning on tying in the SH DMA stuff to the dmaengine code, as the async_tx stuff certainly has quite a few bits of interest. This is probably something I won't get around to for 2.6.23 though, due to time constraints. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
