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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-19 13:18:39 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-19 13:18:39 -0800 |
commit | 59b8175c771040afcd4ad67022b0cc80c216b866 (patch) | |
tree | 4ef5935bee1e342716d49b9d4b99e3fa835526e6 /Documentation | |
parent | 920841d8d1d61bc12b43f95a579a5374f6d98f81 (diff) | |
parent | 3b0eb4a195a124567cd0dd6f700f8388def542c6 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (117 commits)
[ARM] 4058/2: iop32x: set ->broken_parity_status on n2100 onboard r8169 ports
[ARM] 4140/1: AACI stability add ac97 timeout and retries
[ARM] 4139/1: AACI record support
[ARM] 4138/1: AACI: multiple channel support for IRQ handling
[ARM] 4211/1: Provide a defconfig for ns9xxx
[ARM] 4210/1: base for new machine type "NetSilicon NS9360"
[ARM] 4222/1: S3C2443: Remove reference to missing S3C2443_PM
[ARM] 4221/1: S3C2443: DMA support
[ARM] 4220/1: S3C24XX: DMA system initialised from sysdev
[ARM] 4219/1: S3C2443: DMA source definitions
[ARM] 4218/1: S3C2412: fix CONFIG_CPU_S3C2412_ONLY wrt to S3C2443
[ARM] 4217/1: S3C24XX: remove the dma channel show at startup
[ARM] 4090/2: avoid clash between PXA and SA1111 defines
[ARM] 4216/1: add .gitignore entries for ARM specific files
[ARM] 4214/2: S3C2410: Add Armzone QT2410
[ARM] 4215/1: s3c2410 usb device: per-platform vbus_draw
[ARM] 4213/1: S3C2410 - Update definition of ADCTSC_XY_PST
[ARM] 4098/1: ARM: rtc_lock only used with rtc_cmos
[ARM] 4137/1: Add kexec support
[ARM] 4201/1: SMP barriers pair needed for the secondary boot process
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Fix up conflict due to typedef removal in sound/arm/aaci.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt | 46 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt | 21 |
2 files changed, 63 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..37f4edc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/DMA.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ + S3C2410 DMA + =========== + +Introduction +------------ + + The kernel provides an interface to manage DMA transfers + using the DMA channels in the cpu, so that the central + duty of managing channel mappings, and programming the + channel generators is in one place. + + +DMA Channel Ordering +-------------------- + + Many of the range do not have connections for the DMA + channels to all sources, which means that some devices + have a restricted number of channels that can be used. + + To allow flexibilty for each cpu type and board, the + dma code can be given an dma ordering structure which + allows the order of channel search to be specified, as + well as allowing the prohibition of certain claims. + + struct s3c24xx_dma_order has a list of channels, and + each channel within has a slot for a list of dma + channel numbers. The slots are searched in order, for + the presence of a dma channel number with DMA_CH_VALID + orred in. + + If the order has the flag DMA_CH_NEVER set, then after + checking the channel list, the system will return no + found channel, thus denying the request. + + A board support file can call s3c24xx_dma_order_set() + to register an complete ordering set. The routine will + copy the data, so the original can be discared with + __initdata. + + +Authour +------- + +Ben Dooks, +Copyright (c) 2007 Ben Dooks, Simtec Electronics +Licensed under the GPL v2 diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt index 28d0147..c31b76f 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt @@ -8,13 +8,10 @@ Introduction The Samsung S3C24XX range of ARM9 System-on-Chip CPUs are supported by the 's3c2410' architecture of ARM Linux. Currently the S3C2410, - S3C2440 and S3C2442 devices are supported. + S3C2412, S3C2413, S3C2440 and S3C2442 devices are supported. Support for the S3C2400 series is in progress. - Support for the S3C2412 and S3C2413 CPUs is being merged. - - Configuration ------------- @@ -26,6 +23,22 @@ Configuration please check the machine specific documentation. +Layout +------ + + The core support files are located in the platform code contained in + arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx with headers in include/asm-arm/plat-s3c24xx. + This directory should be kept to items shared between the platform + code (arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx) and the arch/arm/mach-s3c24* code. + + Each cpu has a directory with the support files for it, and the + machines that carry the device. For example S3C2410 is contained + in arch/arm/mach-s3c2410 and S3C2440 in arch/arm/mach-s3c2440 + + Register, kernel and platform data definitions are held in the + include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410 directory. + + Machines -------- |