On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 01:27:53PM +0200, Alexander Sverdlin wrote: > Legacy platform instantiation of PL022 had an ability to configure DMA > usage on controller level. If PL022 is being instantiated from DT it still > claims couple of DMA channels capable of DMA_SLAVE unconditionally even if > there are no DMA channels specified in the DT. > Depending on the slave devices' configuration this might be waste of DMA > channels or this might even claim some precious DMA channels if there are > only few of them in the system. Hrm. This makes sense as an expedient solution for constrained systems however I'm wondering if it's a good idea to bake it into the ABI like this or if we shouldn't instead be looking at improving the driver to work better in systems with limited channels, for example by only claiming the channels when it's active (since it can fall back to PIO if it doesn't get them). That might be too heavyweight though, possibly even impact performance for systems that do have abundant channels and could interfere with other devices that aren't so able to do the fallback stuff.
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