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From: Sourav Poddar <sourav.poddar@ti.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	"Balbi, Felipe" <balbi@ti.com>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Gupta, Pekon" <pekon@ti.com>,
	"spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Trent Piepho <tpiepho@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] spi/qspi: Add memory mapped read support.
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:36:06 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5260B3AE.9070308@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131017234230.GZ2443@sirena.org.uk>

On Friday 18 October 2013 05:12 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 01:03:26PM +0000, Gupta, Pekon wrote:
>
>> mtd_read() {
>> 	if (flash->mmap_mode)
>> 		if (dma_available)
>> 			read_via_dma(destination, source, length);
>> 		else
>> 			memcpy(destination, source, length);
>> 	else
>> 		/* use spi frame-work by default */
>> }
>> Are you looking for comparison between  read_via_dma() v/s memcpy() ?
> No, I'm looking for a comparison of normal SPI mode (which I'd have
> expected to DMA) and the memcpy() mode.
>
>> If yes, then unfortunately we are bit constrained because our controller
>> does not support DMA. So, we have to depend on CPU based memcpy()
>> only. However, use of DMA can be added as an independent patch on
>> top of this CASE-2 patch.
> However if the controller can't DMA at all then that's not going to be
> possible...  am I understanding you correctly that normal SPI can't DMA?
Yes, you are correct, the normal SPI cant DMA.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-18  4:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-09 15:24 [PATCH 0/3]Add quad/memory mapped support for SPI flash Sourav Poddar
2013-10-09 15:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] spi/qspi: Add memory mapped read support Sourav Poddar
2013-10-09 16:07   ` Mark Brown
2013-10-09 16:54     ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-09 17:40       ` Mark Brown
2013-10-09 18:15         ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-09 18:41           ` Mark Brown
2013-10-09 19:01         ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-10-09 19:36           ` Mark Brown
2013-10-10  2:27           ` Trent Piepho
2013-10-10  8:52             ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-10 10:14               ` Mark Brown
2013-10-10 10:17                 ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-10 11:08                 ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-11 10:08                   ` Mark Brown
2013-10-15  6:06                     ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-15 11:16                       ` Mark Brown
2013-10-15 11:49                         ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-15 12:46                           ` Mark Brown
2013-10-15 13:23                             ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-15 15:33                               ` Gupta, Pekon
2013-10-15 16:01                                 ` Mark Brown
2013-10-15 16:54                                   ` Gupta, Pekon
2013-10-15 15:53                               ` Mark Brown
2013-10-15 18:01                               ` Brian Norris
2013-10-15 18:10                                 ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-15 18:13                                 ` Trent Piepho
2013-10-15 18:33                                   ` Gupta, Pekon
2013-10-15 20:52                                     ` Mark Brown
2013-10-15 21:03                                       ` Trent Piepho
2013-10-15 22:10                                         ` Mark Brown
2013-10-17 12:24                                     ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-17 12:38                                       ` Mark Brown
2013-10-17 13:03                                         ` Gupta, Pekon
2013-10-17 23:42                                           ` Mark Brown
2013-10-18  4:06                                             ` Sourav Poddar [this message]
2013-10-18  5:56                                               ` Trent Piepho
2013-10-18  6:10                                                 ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-18  7:27                                                   ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-18 10:31                                                     ` Mark Brown
2013-10-18 11:48                                                       ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-18 13:08                                                         ` Mark Brown
2013-10-18 14:47                                                           ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-15 20:59                                   ` Mark Brown
2013-10-11  9:30               ` Gupta, Pekon
2013-10-10 10:10             ` Mark Brown
     [not found]               ` <CA+7tXigijA6ASOiHkRDz45PTruv2vwYJu0UUWz0hvKr0=zwu5w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-10-11  9:59                 ` Mark Brown
2013-10-09 15:24 ` [PATCHv3 2/3] drivers: mtd: devices: Add quad " Sourav Poddar
2013-10-09 18:15   ` Jagan Teki
2013-10-11  7:10     ` Gupta, Pekon
2013-10-24  1:06   ` Brian Norris
2013-10-24  5:44     ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-24  7:34       ` Brian Norris
2013-10-24  8:44         ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-24 17:07           ` Brian Norris
2013-10-24 17:55             ` Sourav Poddar
2013-10-09 15:24 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/3] drivers: mtd: devices: Add memory mapped " Sourav Poddar
2013-10-09 15:45   ` Mark Brown
2013-10-24  0:22 ` [PATCH 0/3]Add quad/memory mapped support for SPI flash Brian Norris
2013-10-24  4:51   ` Sourav Poddar

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