Mem-2-Mem DMA - Generalized API

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Jun 25 06:21:57 EST 2007


On Sunday 24 June 2007, Clifford Wolf wrote:
> I'm working on an MPC8349E based project and as some of you might know this
> chip has a four channel (bus-) memory-to-memory DMA controller.
> 
> Unfortunately the linux kernel is atm lacking a generic interface for such
> DMA controllers.

So what's wrong with the include/linux/dmaengine.h API? I thought it was
designed to cover this sort of DMA controller?

	Arnd <><



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