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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 flexibilty for each cpu type and board, the
21   dma code can be given an 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   orred 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 an complete ordering set. The routine will
37   copy the data, so the original can be discared with
38   __initdata.
39
40
41Authour
42-------
43
44Ben Dooks,
45Copyright (c) 2007 Ben Dooks, Simtec Electronics
46Licensed under the GPL v2
47