Re: [PATCH v6 03/10] ARM: edma: add AM33XX support to the private EDMA API

[Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 08:01:41AM +0200, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 16:42 -0500, Matt Porter wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 08:58:39PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Thursday 31 January 2013, Matt Porter wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 09:32:58AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > > On Wednesday 30 January 2013, Matt Porter wrote:
> > > > > > +               dma_cap_set(DMA_SLAVE, edma_filter_info.dma_cap);
> > > > > > +               of_dma_controller_register(dev->of_node,
> > > > > > +                                          of_dma_simple_xlate,
> > > > > > +                                          &edma_filter_info);
> > > > > > +       }
> > > > > 
> > > > > How do you actually deal with the problem mentioned by Padma, that
> > > > > the filter function does not know which edma instance it is looking
> > > > > at? If you assume that there can only be a single edma instance in
> > > > > the system, that is probably a limitation that should be documented
> > > > > somewhere, and ideally the probe() function should check for that.
> > > > 
> > > > I make an assumption of one edma instance in the system in the case of
> > > > DT being populated. This is always true right now as the only SoC with
> > > > two EDMA controllers in existence is Davinci DA850. Until recently,
> > > > Davinci had no DT support. Given the steady work being done today on DT
> > > > support for DA850, it'll probably be something needed in 3.10.
> > > > 
> > > > I will add a comment and check in probe() to capture this assumption
> > > > and then plan to update separately to support DA850 booting from DT.
> > > 
> > > Ok, sounds good. Hopefully by then we will already have a nicer
> > > way to write an xlate function that does not rely on a filter
> > > function.
> > 
> > Yes, it would be nice to avoid what Padma had to do. I should have
> > mentioned also that the second EDMA on DA850 has no DMA events of
> > immediate use on it anyway. All the in-kernel users use events on the
> > first controller, except for the second MMC instance. That's only used
> > for a wl12xx module on the EVM and that driver has no DT support so it
> > doesn't matter yet in the DT case. Because of this, DA850 can actually
> > add EDMA DT support immediately (on top of this series) and add DMA
> > support to the DT support already posted for the Davinci SPI and MMC
> > client drivers.
> 
> I haven't followed this whole discussion in details, but please notice
> that I'm aiming to get DT support for the WiLink modules (wlcore,
> wl12xx...) for 3.10. ;)

Great, looks like we'll all be synced then. ;)

-Matt