DMA Puzzle

Kelsey Dawes kelsey at codemonkey.net
Tue Apr 17 05:35:29 EST 2007


On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:23:00PM -0700, Charles Krinke wrote:
> My apologies for the complexity of this e-mail but DMA seems to be a
> complex subject. Thanks to Ed.S a while back, I have DMA working fine
> from U-Boot, but I am having a problem in Linux with the 8541 processor
> using the 2.6.17.11 kernel. I need to DMA through an outbound address
> translation window setup at 0x8800_0000 and the chip I am DMA'ing to is
> responding to 64bit DAC (Dual Address Cycles) and its memory is setup

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Hi Charles - have you checked the device errata for 8541?  I do not have the details in front of me, but do recall several items specific to DMA  signal to complete DMA transaction.  


Worth a look anyway - 

Kelsey



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