Re: Using DMA

2008-11-07 Thread Bruce_Leonard
> > There's some network stuff that uses it for optimization. If > CONFIG_NET_DMA is > enabled, that will turn on some kind of TCP/IP offloading. I don't > really know > much about that. There's also a dmatest.c testing driver. > > It would definitely be nice to see a third client driver. >

Re: Using DMA

2008-11-07 Thread Timur Tabi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So it sounds like the async dma is the way to go, since I want to off load > as much as possible from the core. As you say, though, it's new and not > in LDD3. Is .../drivers/dma/dmaengine.c what everyone is refering to as > async dma? Yes. > If not, what is? An

Re: Using DMA

2008-11-07 Thread Bruce_Leonard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/07/2008 01:46:42 PM: > > Whether or not using async dma is worth the effort can only be > determined by profiling the code. Either it's better, or it's not. > There's no real way to tell in advance. > Pretty much the answer I expected :), I was just hoping that "w

Re: Using DMA

2008-11-07 Thread Timur Tabi
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:31 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if I need something as complicated as sound/soc/fsl/fsl_dma.c > or not. Maybe you can offer an opinion. The NAND flash in our product is > our backing storage, i.e., our hard drive. We know that we're going to be > stori

Re: Using DMA

2008-11-07 Thread Bruce_Leonard
Hi Timur, Thanks for the reply, very informative. > > The Elo device driver is an async DMA back-end driver. That is, you > don't communicate with that driver directly, you communicate with the > async library (which is new - so you won't find it in LDD3). > > Please note that the async DMA st

Re: Broken network for different u-boot compilation

2008-11-07 Thread Ben Warren
Duy-Ky Nguyen wrote: Hello, I'm using u-boot 1.3.0 from the latest FreeScale Linux BSP MPC8313E-RDB. Wrong mailing list. Try mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] regards, Ben ___ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mai

Broken network for different u-boot compilation

2008-11-07 Thread Duy-Ky Nguyen
Hello, I'm using u-boot 1.3.0 from the latest FreeScale Linux BSP MPC8313E-RDB. If I set TEXT_BASE = 0x100, so I could use BDI debugger to load into RAM and run it out of RAM. I'm ABLE to ping to the host from u-boot But, if I set TEXT_BASE=0xFE00, and burn the image it into Flash, r

Re: How to register an interrupt under linux?

2008-11-07 Thread Scott Wood
wael showair wrote: Dear all, First here is the setup i've: 1. The board is SPTWIMAX-CC1E board 2. The processor is MPC8555 i found it in the powerpc family NOT ppc family. Also the board contains DSP core. 3. Linux Kernel 2.6.19-rc5 running on the MPC8555 processor side. That's rather old...

Re: Using DMA

2008-11-07 Thread Timur Tabi
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:07 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be the wrong forum for this question. If so I apologize, and > could someone please tell me the appropriate place to ask? You're in the right place. > In the Cafe driver, Linux Device Drivers 3rd Edition, and DMA-mapping.txt

Serial console on board based on Lite5200b

2008-11-07 Thread Angelo
Hi, I have a board based on the Lite5200b, except that the serial console is on PSC4 instead of PSC1. Using the a custom U-boot (1.2.0) and kernel 2.6.21 (compiled for powerpc), I managed to get U-boot to output on the console on PSC4, but the kernel does not. I had just modified lite5200b.dts

MPC8572: Graphic Card problem

2008-11-07 Thread Isaac Gomez Morales
Hi, I have MPC8572DS Board with > uname -a Linux mpc8572ds 2.6.23 #3 SMP and u-boot 1.3.0. I have an ATI Radeon 3650 graphics card in the PCIe Slot1 as you can see in the following charts > lspci -v ... 0001:03:00.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Freescale Semiconductor Inc MPC8572E (rev 10)

How to register an interrupt under linux?

2008-11-07 Thread wael showair
Dear all, First here is the setup i've: 1. The board is SPTWIMAX-CC1E board 2. The processor is MPC8555 i found it in the powerpc family NOT ppc family. Also the board contains DSP core. 3. Linux Kernel 2.6.19-rc5 running on the MPC8555 processor side. I aim to let the DSP processor interrupts t