Re: dmaengine: dw-dmac: Custom cyclic API (Why?)

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 15:48 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 10:38:00AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-12-30 at 12:05 +0000, Jose Abreu wrote:
> > > ++dw-dmac Maintainers

> > I used to have some semi-finished patch to switch to generic API,
> > though
> > at that point I had no means to test it.
> > 
> > Since I eventually got iDMA 32-bit, which is used as LPE Audio DMA
> > engine, support in my branch I might test it in the future, though I
> > think someone else would be much faster than me.
> 
> no we can't, since the DSP is involved and takes control, so unless we
> do
> lots of nasty hacks, it won't be testable. I don't see the ROI for
> such an
> effort.

Thanks for clarification

> btw, feel free to test and send patches if you have such a h/w

Actually we have AVR32 connected to our lab. So, I can test it there,
but I rather need a patch to use some dummy stub instead of codec (it
has no codec connected).

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy