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1 S3C2410 DMA
2 ===========
3
4Introduction
5------------
6
7 The kernel provides an interface to manage DMA transfers
8 using the DMA channels in the CPU, so that the central
9 duty of managing channel mappings, and programming the
10 channel generators is in one place.
11
12
13DMA Channel Ordering
14--------------------
15
16 Many of the range do not have connections for the DMA
17 channels to all sources, which means that some devices
18 have a restricted number of channels that can be used.
19
20 To allow flexibility for each CPU type and board, the
21 DMA code can be given a DMA ordering structure which
22 allows the order of channel search to be specified, as
23 well as allowing the prohibition of certain claims.
24
25 struct s3c24xx_dma_order has a list of channels, and
26 each channel within has a slot for a list of DMA
27 channel numbers. The slots are searched in order for
28 the presence of a DMA channel number with DMA_CH_VALID
29 or-ed in.
30
31 If the order has the flag DMA_CH_NEVER set, then after
32 checking the channel list, the system will return no
33 found channel, thus denying the request.
34
35 A board support file can call s3c24xx_dma_order_set()
36 to register a complete ordering set. The routine will
37 copy the data, so the original can be discarded with
38 __initdata.
39
40
41Authour
42-------
43
44Ben Dooks,
45Copyright (c) 2007 Ben Dooks, Simtec Electronics
46Licensed under the GPL v2