Subject: Re: [RFC] mmc: msm_sdcc: Use SPS BAM as DMA engine
From: "Koul, Vinod" <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
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        "'Daniel Walker'" <dwalker@fifo99.com>, cjb@laptop.org,
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On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:45 -0700, David Brown wrote:
> 
> Currently none of the MSM DMA hardware uses the DMA engine API, and I
> think we need to figure out if we want to move to that at some point.  I
> realize that the hardware (especially SPS BAM) does a lot more than
> regular DMA, this may involve extending DMA engine, which may or may not
> be appropriate.
If its looks sane extension, I am okay with it :)
Can you point out _exactly_ why the MSM DMA H/W can't use DMA engine at
this point of time?

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~Vinod

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