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SubjectRE: [PATCH] serial: Add OMAP high-speed UART driver.

Santosh,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shilimkar, Santosh
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:34 PM
> To: G, Manjunath Kondaiah; S, Venkatraman; Tony Lindgren;
> Raja, Govindraj; Greg KH; linux-serial@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-omap@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> Kevin Hilman; Olof Johansson
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] serial: Add OMAP high-speed UART driver.
>
> <snip snip>
> > > > --
> > > CDAC is a shadow register used for monitoring the DMA channel.
> > > I think it would be a lot
> > > simpler if omap_start_dma() always resets CDAC to 0, and the
> > > UART driver
> > > just not set it explicitly.
> >
> > This seems to be better option than exposing CDAC read/write API
> > to other drivers since user need to write '0' before
> starting any DMA
> > transfer which can be be done in omap_start_dma().
> >
> > I am wondering how other drivers are using DMA transfer
> API's without
> > resetting CDAC to zero.
> >
> It's needed only if some one is interested in that count.
> UART seems to
> using this counter where as other driver don't.
>
> Why do you think drivers need to know about counter value ?

Reading of non zero value(after reset to zero and enabling dma channel)
from CDAC register indicates that, DMA transfer has started and user can
rely on DMA4_CCENi and DMA4_CCFNi element and frame counters.

If the CDAC value is zero even after starting DMA channel, indicates
error.

-Manjunath




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