Re: i.MX SPI driver

[Andrea Paterniani <a.paterniani-03BXCEkGbFHYGGNLXY5/rw@public.gmane.org>]

Ok!
I agree with you.
Anyway consider that because of my work scheduling I'll have no time to 
spend for the next months.
Please keep me informed on future developments.

Regards,
Andrea

Sascha Hauer ha scritto:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:46:23AM +0200, Andrea Paterniani wrote:
>   
>> Hi Sascha,
>>
>> Sorry for late replay!
>> The current driver support DMA transfers.
>> Surely for our design this feature is mandatory since we need to sustain  
>> heavy SPI traffic.
>> I suggest to not remove the driver even if it only supports iMX1 device  
>> and not the entire family.
>> Is it possible to have both current and new drivers?
>>     
>
> I really wouldn't suggest that. The current driver does not work anymore
> anyway since arch-imx is gone and the DMA API has changed on arch-mx1.
> We have to do some work anyway, so I suggest to put the effort into DMA
> support for the new driver. Since it's a bitbang driver it shouldn't be
> hard.
>
> Sascha
>
>   

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