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>
> It would be really preferable to support all those platforms in a
> single Linux
> image. If technically possible, please try to move this direction.
It is do-able for couple of SoCs. Other SoC DMA engines are quite a bit
different.
Let me first do small steps first and slowly achieve some run time
Differentiation.

Thanks,
Marri