On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/22/2013 3:23 AM, Joel A Fernandes wrote: >> Hi Arnd, >> >> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Friday 21 June 2013, Joel A Fernandes wrote: >>>> I think we are talking about different things, I agree the 'select >>>> DMADEVICES' can be dropped but lets please keep the default y option >>>> (not adding new select statements, just saying that if someone select >>>> DMADEVICES in menuconfig and if they're ARCH_OMAP=1 , then default to >>>> EDMA). This will simply allow people to have a default. Thanks. >>> >>> Yes, that's ok. >> >> Ok, thanks. I will follow up with a patch in my next submissions that builds it. >> >> Perhaps a: >> default y if 'ARCH_OMAP2PLUS' >> >> and leave the existing as it is... >> default n if 'ARCH_DAVINCI || ARCH_OMAP1 || ARCH_OMAP2' >> >> would make most sense to me. Basically EDMA is seen on current and all >> new OMAP2PLUS. > > OMAP2PLUS devices like OMAP3/4 do not have EDMA so this is not really true. Sure. Right now though, and from what I've seen, all future SoCs are supporting EDMA. >> >>> >>> config TI_EDMA >>> tristate "TI EDMA support" >>> default m if 'ARCH_DAVINCI || ARCH_OMAP1 || ARCH_OMAP2 >>> select DMA_ENGINE >>> select DMA_VIRTUAL_CHANNELS >> >> >> >> MMC depends on EDMA specially on AM33xx there's no PIO mode AFAIK. The >> 'm' option will require some initramfs to load the module when needing >> to MMC boot, I suggest lets leave it as y. > > But there is no reason why it cannot work with PIO, right? Sounds like > the right fix is in driver. I am not sure about this. I agree no reason it cannot do PIO. I will check. But even if it did, loading EDMA as a module will require omap_hsmmc to switch to DMA mode which I am sure the driver doesn't support today. Thanks, Joel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
