On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 14 August 2015 at 01:08, Alex G. <mr.nuke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 08/10/2015 07:54 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>> On 10 August 2015 at 15:44, Olliver Schinagl <oliver+l...@schinagl.nl> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hey Michal,
>>>>
>>>> As without this patch, we cannot use something like mmc-spi due to the
>>>> restriction of packet size iirc.
>>>
>>> With DMA we can. And since DMA will be enabled most of the time the
>>> non-DMA code will receive little or no testing.
>>>
>> That was also an objection over a year ago, when this patch was first
>> ready, and still, no DMA support is implemented. It would be amazing to
>> have a way to run larger transfers _today_ :) .
>
> The dmaengine patch should get into 4.3 probably.
>

And here we are again, over one year later, up to 4.9, and still
limited to 63 byte transfers.

A very smart person just brought this up to me today:

" cool, to bad spi does not work properly on allwinner..."

Alex

> Thanks
>
> Michal

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