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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: Mem-2-Mem DMA - Generalized API
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:21:57 +0200
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On Sunday 24 June 2007, Clifford Wolf wrote:
> I'm working on an MPC8349E based project and as some of you might know this
> chip has a four channel (bus-) memory-to-memory DMA controller.
> 
> Unfortunately the linux kernel is atm lacking a generic interface for such
> DMA controllers.

So what's wrong with the include/linux/dmaengine.h API? I thought it was
designed to cover this sort of DMA controller?

	Arnd <><