[PATCH V3 1/2] of: Add generic device tree DMA helpers

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:00:53AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> To solve Russell's HW, we need some way of representing the mux directly
> in DT irrespective of how the DMA controller or DMA client specify what
> they're connected to. Anything else isn't representing the HW in DT.

Note that it's now no longer _just_ my hardware.

The Spear family of SoCs have a very similar setup - they mux the DMA
request signals between the PL08x and their peripherals.  It looks like
each of the 16 DMA requests to the PL08x can be independently muxed
between four possibilities via a common register.

See arch/arm/plat-spear/pl080.c in current arm-soc.