MPC8xx and IDMA !?!?

[Steven Scholz]

To whom it may concern,

> a while ago (aprox. kernel 2.4.11) I succesfully played around with IDMA
> on MPC855/860.
> ...
> The code is NOT working on recent kernels (I pulled it yesterday).
> I set up the IDMA. Trigger DREQ0 using a GPIO pin. SDMACK1 is going LOW
> but then instead of toggeling it just stays LOW. And instead of
> transfering data the MPC8xx just hangs.
>
> Have there been changes in the DPRAM layout ..?

I (think I) figured out the problem:

I use
	m8xx_cpm_dpalloc( sizeof(idma_bd_t) );

to allocate space for the buffer descriptors in the DP ram.

The User Man says "Note that IBASE should be burst-aligned (divisible by
16)"
(Does the English "should be" means "have to be, otherwise everything
goes wrong!"???)

The older kernel versions always returned (by pure accident?) a
burst-aligned address (%16) (e.g. 0x850 offset from dpmem start). So
everything was fine.

The newer kernels return (by pure accident?) a NON burst-aligned address
(e.g. 0x0918) und the IDMA crashes.

So my workaround for now is to allocate more than I need and correct the
value for IBASE like
	ibase += ibase % 16

Could anyone think of a better solution? Since I waste at least 16 bytes
in the DPRAM.

BTW:
Where is Wolfgangs m8xx_cpm_dpfree() !?!?
I can't find it in the recent source trees.

Cheers,

Steven

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