On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 20:21 +0530, Jassi Brar wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Koul, Vinod <vinod.k...@intel.com> wrote:
> > > Sorry I still don't get this schema and how it can be scaled and be > > generic enough to let it carry with various implementations. > > > > Can you publish your complete idea rather than bits and pieces... > I already explained the complete idea. I don't have any implementation yet. > Clients and dmaengine.c is easier to manage. > But changes to >20 dmac drivers is the biggest effort - though they anyway > need such modifications if we are to have the DMAENGINE utopia someday. > In free time, I will modify a dmac driver or two, but it might take > prohibitively > long if I am expected to update possibly all the 20 dmac drivers and the > backend > platforms by It would help if you can send RFC of changes in one driver and dmaengine changes. I want to get the dmaengine changes understood well and be able to deal with all scenarios we have. Without complete code its rather hard :( We can do these changes to other drivers over a period of time, that can be taken over a period of time and we can manage that, this part is easy. > a) Making dmac drivers platform agnostic and for re-routable ReqSig-Peri > map. > That implies dmac drivers managing 'virtual-channel' front end > and physical > channel and ReqSig->Peri link management in the backend with > help from platform. > b) Modifying platforms/boards to pass channel map and link re-routing > callback > pointers to generic dmac drivers. -- ~Vinod ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ spi-devel-general mailing list spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spi-devel-general
