MPC8540 DMA routines (channel 0 broken?)

[Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de>]

Hello,

I am about to bring Jason McMullan's DMA routines up to linux-2.6
Currently I am in the process of getting the things started step
by step.

Until today I had a pretty hard time for some basic direct dma
transfers because it seems that dma channel 0 doesn't work at all
on my hardware (PPC8540PX833LB 2L71V MSIA QEAD0412).
The status register always stays 0x0 (means everything is happy and
okay) but it doesn't copy any data. I cannot even trigger a
programming error by a wrong configuration!
But when I let ch 1,2,3 do the work, everything
seems to work fine!
I havent found anything in the errata sheets or in the web.
Can a DMA machine crash that it stays completely unusable?
Have anybody seen similar things like that?

Some other questions:
I would also suggest to put my revised and almost
complete immap_85xx.h and the mpc85xx_dma module into the
current linux tree (Kumar?) to get things like that
started more easily.
Why is Jason's work not in the Kernel?

If you are fine with that, I can offer some patches.
But I first need to strip tons of the debug stuff from
the last two weeks. :-/

Best greets,

Clemens Koller
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